Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 24—Guitarist and singer-songwriter Jonathan Butler, the South African recording artist who has been inspiring audiences since ...

Middletown >> The 42nd annual Crowell Concert Series, presented by Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts and Music Department, continues with a concert by South African guitarist Derek Gripper on ...

South African guitar virtuoso Derek Gripper plays music originally meant for the 21 stringed lute-harp, the kora, on his 6-string Segovia-styled guitar and does it so well that the world’s leading ...

Hear songs by Mdou Moctar, Bombino, Orchestra Baobab and more. By Ben Sisario For today’s Amplifier, your proprietor Lindsay Zoladz graciously lent me the keys for a little tour of Africa to celebrate ...

During interviews, I regularly ask musicians about their childhood home — whether their parents were musicians, if there were instruments around and jams abounding, or perhaps just recorded music ...

TRANSCENDENCE: No one lifts audiences into the ether quite like an African guitarist. On Jan. 10, Mdou Moctar, a guitar god from Niger, will bring his hypnotic sound to The Ramkat for what is expected ...

Award-winning jazz guitarist Louis Mhlanga has always let music take center stage. For the 67-year-old award-winning Zimbabwean, music has been the sole focus of his life. “I did nothing else except ...