South Africa is celebrating 30 years since apartheid ended and Nelson Mandela became the nation’s first Black president. In the U.S., a South African musical group is spreading Mandela’s message of ...

Inside a St. Paul church, five vocalists stood at the sanctuary's front and, with rich voices and raised hands, sang the South African national anthem. Their national anthem. "In our country, people ...

Music of the African Diaspora Festival, AMP Youth Orchestra Performing & Visual Arts ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center kicked off their 2025-2026 season with Mother Africa on July 24 and 25, a concert consisting of compositions primarily from American composers who were heavily influenced by ...

Hear songs by Mdou Moctar, Bombino, Orchestra Baobab and more. By Ben Sisario For today’s Amplifier, your proprietor Lindsay Zoladz graciously lent me the keys for a little tour of Africa to celebrate ...

Thinking back on the biggest cultural moments of 2024, it’s hard to ignore the many African women who were at the center of it all. Over the past decade, global African music has been dominated by ...

When Armand Diangienda founded the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra -- one of the most famous in Africa -- in 1994, they had so few instruments that musicians had to share. They got to play them for ...

Arturo O'Farrill's Song for Chico is a disc that would have done the old man proud. The "Chico" of the title is Cuban-born Arturo "Chico" O'Farrill, the senior (b.1921; d.2001), the visionary Latin ...

African music, with its distinctive emphasis on polyrhythm and beats flowing from percussive instruments, was long treated as subordinate in the international music arena. Music from the continent ...

The 2024 Grammy awards will see the introduction of a new category: "best African music performance." When the category was announced last year, Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. stated that it would be ...