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When Mark Bilyeu and Cindy Woolf walked into the Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium, it wasn’t the first time the musical duo performed on the national stage.
Each day of the Festival, the Stax Music Academy students commanded the attention of visitors with their dynamic performances.
The guitarrón is the backbone of mariachi music, anchoring the ensemble with musical bass lines and rhythmic pulse.
In the orchestral field, only 2.1 percent of players are Black. The Alliance of Black Orchestral Percussionists seeks to change this.
The group range in age from fourteen to nineteen. Most of them play multiple instruments, and all of them sing.
As Mapuche storytellers, Waikil and Ketrafe fuse their Indigenous backgrounds with their love and passion for contemporary music.
It was especially significant for this group to perform on Canada Day, July 1, with the ambassador of Canada to the United States in attendance.
The enduring influence of African American gospel music is felt across genres and artists.
Pamyua began on an April evening in 1995, in Wasilla, Alaska.
In the Indigenous Maya Mam language, the term awal translates to “the sower.”
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