HENDERSON — McGregor Hall is slated to host A Celebration of African Music and Dance, a concert billed as tracing the roots of African music from the continent to where it is today. The event begins 3 ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Skidmore College is well-known for its hands-on approaches to education. Recently, the music department presented an example of this with a show by Dr. Ruth Opara’s class on ...

Is it possible that rhythms pounded out on African drums can have a healing effect on our troubled world? After sitting in on a practice session of Ballet Manden, a West African drum, dance and ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — More change is afoot at the Grammys. The Recording Academy announced Tuesday that three new categories will be added to the awards show in 2024: best pop dance recording, best ...

VESTAL (WBNG) -- An assistant professor in the Africana Studies Department is sharing his knowledge of song and dance with students. Samuel Elikem Kwame Nyamuame a native of Ghana and has a background ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist Master KG, dances to Jerusalema in Johannesburg, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. South Africans of all walks of life are dancing ...

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town Amapiano is a soulful mix of grooves, sonic textures and moods that can be by turns hectic, smooth, melodic or ...

The Department of Dance at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance presents Touch a Breath — The Body Tells, an MFA Thesis performance choreographed by Gloria Ahlijah (Sitso) at the Dance Building Friday ...

Charlotte-area organizations like El Alma de la Luna, Dances of India and Charlotte African Drum and Dance Collective elevate ...

Just as great pressure creates diamonds out of coal — the world’s largest diamonds come, after all, from South Africa — man’s injustice to his fellow man can paradoxically create great art: an art of ...

Kelly Burgét, a South Bend television host and founder of UZIMA! Drum and Dance Company, died at age 60. Burgét passed away after a long battle with lung cancer, despite being a non-smoker. She was a ...

The academy also announced the best alternative jazz album award and is allowing all Grammy voters, who have limitations in the number of categories they can vote in, to put their bids in for ...