Fado music, known as Portuguese blues, is a tradition dating back centuries. At its heart is saudade, which loosely can be translated as an indefinable yearning, sung in Portuguese by […]
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Throat singing is unlike anything you’ve ever heard or seen performed live. “People often ask us where our music comes from — ‘Is it like Chinese, or Mongolian, or Russian, […]
Bringing a band that blends New Orleans second-line tradition and hip-hop rhythms to brass-heavy Richmond is a bit like bringing ice to Eskimos. Then again, Eskimos like ice. And judging […]
[image-1 Andrzej Bienkowski, a professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, traversed Poland for 30 years to document and record its village music. Eventually he started a salon out […]
If you don’t know how Texas swing music used to be played, check out the Marshall Ford Swing Band to learn. The quintet has been around in its current incarnation […]
For some, Vietnam evokes a divisive war, and for others delicious cuisine. The popular music of the Vietnamese diaspora is a modern combination of Oriental tonality and Western orchestration. But […]
“I feel the music I perform, and how it’s being presented by my band truly brings people together to enjoy life,” says Alex Meixner, the wild, Grammy-nominated polka player. “We […]
It’s a long way from the chitlins circuit to the Richmond Folk Fest, and no one knows that better than Mighty Sam McClain. The 70-year-old soul and blues legend has […]
Anyone out there a fan of reggae legends Black Uhuru? Singer Don Carlos, born Ervin Spencer, was one of the founders of the trio in 1972, when it was just […]
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