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Guitarist and singer-songwriter Jonathan Butler, the South African recording artist who has been inspiring audiences since his international breakthrough in the mid-1980s, will be performing with the ...

Back in the ’60s, the template for a protest singer was set as an earnest fingerstyle folkie, regaling a cross-legged audience in a Greenwich Village coffee house. 5,000 miles away, and a half-century ...

Sheer Sound's new African Guitar Kings compilation features mostly original tunes by some of the most promising South African guitarists working today. From the opening African singing on the first ...

The Voice is going to kickoff the concert series. South African artist Vusi “The Voice” Mahlasela will start Season 45 of the Performing Arts and Culture Series 7 p.m. Oct. 20 at the Juneau Arts & ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Lionel Loueke didn't pick up the guitar until he was 17. Growing up in the West African country of Benin, he was much more immersed in traditional African music, and by age 9, ...

Join Face2Face Africa as we share with you the top 10 African songs of 2025. The list is in no particular order.

The single, "African Heartbeat' released by Mark Haskins in February of 2018 is an unorthodox composition. The varying rhythmic patterns and pulsating bass lines capture the very essence of Africa.

THE Garden City of West Africa, as the Ashanti regional capital is sometimes referred to, has been a bastion of notable gospel music in Ghana for many years and the Gentle Ministry and Prayer Camp at ...

It's a truism that drums are the heart and soul of African music. But not so fast: Over the past century, guitarists have redefined the sound of the continent. Two new releases, by Zimbabwean ...