MORE than 30 bands will be playing over two days on two stages at this weekend's Indie Tracks Indiepop Festival at Midland Railway Centre, Ripley.

Ingwe recording studios will on Friday launch three albums at a Bulawayo hotel. The music albums, an urban grooves and two gospel albums, are an initiative of Ingwe studios and the Culture Fund.

In a rare stroke of serendipity, a band-of-the-moment has been booked to play Honolulu.

"As a young girl / Louis Vuitton / With your mother / on a sandy lawn As a sophomore / with reggaeton / And the linens / you're sitting on Is your bed made? / Is your sweater on? / Do you want to? / Like you ...

In sheer volume, the concert by the Bang on a Can All-Stars over the weekend was among the most striking in memory from this ensemble.

James Baldwin left his hometown of Prince George for the big city lights a few years ago not just to play music but to formally study it.

The Kenyan government will commission a heroes square here to honour Kenyans who have made personal sacrifices for the sake of the country, President Mwai Kibaki said Monday.

Proud parents welcomed their children back after a tour around the world on Friday at Wadesboro Elementary.

UNITY : Musical explorer Corey Harris will play at 8 p.m. Friday, July 25, at the Unity Centre for the Performing Arts, 42 Depot St.

Earth, Wind & Fire were one of the most musically accomplished, critically acclaimed, and commercially popular funk bands of the '70s. Conceived by drummer, bandleader, songwriter, kalimba player, and ...

The Ethiopian visionary who once brought the sound of young America to swinging Addis is now doing the reverse Tim Perlich The enchantingly exotic and furtively funky music of Mulatu Astatke might make the ...

A new generation of musicians is drawing inspiration from the classic recordings of Mulatu and his Ethiopian contemporaries.

" It felt inauthentic, especially with my heavy accent, " Sila said. " I was trying to be westernized, trying to do what I thought was the cool thing to do, but I was miserable and everyone else who heard me ...

The second Jakarta International Capoeira Festival began Tuesday, featuring Brazilians and Indonesians performing capoeira -- a Brazilian blend of dance, martial arts and acrobatics.

The band's music is almost as ubiquitous as the elements that make up its name. With more than 35 years of music-making, 20 albums , the songs of the Chicago-bred band and 2000 rock hall inductees have easily ...

As the world turns on to African music's optimism, Mark Hudson lists the top acts at Womad festival Rock and African music have traditionally led separate lives.

A worldwide superstar, Hugh Masekela pioneered world music in the 60's as one of the first to create Afro-jazz and then reintroduced South African music to the west during his Graceland tour with Paul Simon.

Four years ago, Washington, D.C., ethnomusicology major and Extra Golden guitarist Ian Eagleson was sitting in a Nairobi nightclub with local musician Otieno Jagwasi, a leading light in Kenya's Benga music ...

School's out, summer is upon us and there's no time for a long vacation? No sweat, Montreal provides plenty of excitement in the weeks ahead - ' and most activities are very affordable or free.

Guitarist Ian Eagleson was studying musicology and had traveled to Nairobi on a research grant for his doctoral dissertation on Benga, a popular form of Kenyan dance music he'd been studying since 2000.