Borrowing from jazz and African rhythms, he forged a singular style that helped define music in his native Ghana — and West Africa — for a generation.

Terry "Harmonica" Bean, of Pontotoc, sings the blues to a group of Lawndale Elementary School students on Wednesday morning. Bean also taught students about music and blues history.

In the heart of the Sahara, where the routes to Sudan and Libya cross, the Chadian city of Amdjarass has been transformed ...

Ahead of the show ’A Night in Andalusia,’ we speak to Lila Borsali to delve into the rich history of Al-Andalus, its music & ...

Linus has been a Pebble fan for AGES but since they went dormant many years ago after being bought by FitBit (then Google) he's moved onto more traditional smart watches. Yet, when the Pebble creator ...

An aerial picture shows a view of loading docks at the port of Libya’s northwestern city of Misrata during a ceremony marking the completion of the first phase of the Misrata Free Zone infrastructure ...

Nineteen years ago, Keith Murphy and his wife had just started to work with the Brattleboro Music Center, developing the traditional music program, when the idea of a festival came up. “We started ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. [APP/NurPhoto via Getty Images] Across North Africa, the Amazigh people have been coming together to usher in the year 2976. They ...

Across North Africa, the Amazigh people have been coming together to usher in the year 2976. They have, unfortunately, not cracked time travel. Rather, they are almost a thousand years ahead of much ...

Lohri, celebrated every year on January 13, is one of the most vibrant winter festivals in North India. It is most popular in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, and Himachal Pradesh, where people gather around a ...

Okay, okay, it’s 2026 and the future is bright, the future is playing traditional music. This year promises to be a milestone in the burgeoning popularity of all kinds of traditional music, from the ...