World Music
“My ancestors fled pogroms in Poland and today we have a crisis to rival what went on in the 1940s.”
Read MoreMost of the can’t-miss acts on this year’s Lowell Folk Fest roster are artists who make preserving musical traditions a family business.
Read MoreSummer has arrived thermally and is due to arrive astronomically early next wee; New England offers a geographically diverse menu of jazz festivals.
Read MoreFrom Providence to Burlington by way of Cambridge, the New England jazz festival season is now underway.
Read MoreBoston’s Debo Band expand their heterophonnic horizons on Ere Gobez.
Read MoreBut dissonance is at the edge of everything you hear at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — a sound that contains multitudes.
Read MoreThe magazine’s Roots and World Music critic looks back at a year of live performances: here are the winners and a few losers.
Read MoreWhen she composes a song, she said, it’s her guitar, rather than her voice, that “chooses the key. The guitar is the boss.”
Read MoreIconic second-generation bossa nova composer, singer, and guitarist Joyce Moreno.
Read More“They are seekers, like we are, and they connect with the music that we play.”
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Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam — Tom Stoppard