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 ...

Covering three continents and four centuries, Bloomington Early Music Festival 2025 is devoted to early music of Black Africans and their descendants. Only during the past few decades have many of ...

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Randy Weston’s relentless advocacy for African music and culture has defined his storied jazz career. This weekend, the renowned jazz pianist, who first set foot on the continent nearly 40 years ago, ...

DECATUR — Johns Hill Music Makers learn fast. In one class period Friday, choral director Heather Pistorius taught the sixth-grade choir a traditional South African folk song, “Lilizela,” complete ...

And Official Penuka Album Release Celebration & Launch Concert At the Renowned Cosmopolite Scene in Oslo, Norway on 11th October 2024. The acclaimed Mozambican, Norway-based saxophonist and composer ...

Maskandi superstar Khuzani “Indlamlenze” Mpungose has bagged the Best Independent Artist (African) award at the Hollywood and African Prestigious Awards in Los Angeles ...

The University of South Africa, Unisa, made history with the inaugural Unisa African Music Festival hosted on 26 and 27 September 2025 at its Muckleneuk Campus in Pretoria. The two-day event brought ...

Joseph Kamaru, the performer who records under the name KMRU, admits that being a composer of ambient electronic music is not an obvious path to fame and fortune in his home country of Kenya. “It has ...

A hush grips the auditorium as the long-awaited concert by one of the world’s most renowned chorales gets underway. The Drakensberg Boys School Choir, South Africa's internationally renowned and most ...

Musicians and music educators of African nationality and living in an African country are invited to submit AI-driven music project proposals. By Heran Mamo The Wits Innovation Centre and Machine ...