KINGSTON Jamaica - For centuries, the voice of the Jamaican people has been amplified through its music, the foundation of ...

Reggae is a unique fusion of local folk music with outside influences. The local folk music was a Jamaican form called mento, but in the 40s and 50s Jamaicans were also listening to music from the US ...

Harry Belafonte was in need of somebody to play harmonica on his version of the blues song 'Midnight Special', and called upon a young Bob Dylan.

Reggae is a unique fusion of local folk music with outside influences. The local folk music was a Jamaican form called mento – which used saxophones, flutes, bamboo fifes, PVC pipes, banjos ...

How a film producer with Jamaican heritage planned her dream wedding—complete with a pig roast, a pool party, and a plenty of ...

A group of local musicians, through ShowJam Entertainment, played mento music—a type of Jamaican folk music that was especially popular in the 1940s and ‘50s and relies on African rhythmic ...

On Wednesday night, the duo played their debut album in full at Sidney Myer Music Bowl – and the staging perfectly captured ...

I live in Brixton, south London. To get to the tube, I have to cross Windrush Square. Since 2021, I go past the Cherry Groce ...

The couple did not give up and instead got the Dimasa community together to raise the funds to curate the Big Bang Music ...

Scattered across the New York City subway system, strewn between its millions of comers and goers, are thousands of long-term ...