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Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab teams with jazz talents at Great American Music Hall

SAN FRANCISCO -- Gifted Pakistani vocalist Arooj Aftab brings her new collaborative trio with fellow NYC musicians Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily to the Great American Music Hall Thursday night.Born in Saudi Arabia in 1985, Aftab and her family returned to her parents native Pakistan when she was ten years old. An early interest in music led Aftab to learn to sing -- she was inspired by Indian vocalists as […]

todaySeptember 20, 2023 8

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The Sugarhill Gang, hip hop icons, headlining Grand Rapids African American Art & Music Festival

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The Sugarhill Gang, the legendary hip-hop group that pioneered American rap with their 1979 hit song “Rapper’s Delight,” will perform in downtown Grand Rapids this weekend as part of a free arts and music festival.The hip hop group is one of several artists scheduled to perform at the annual Grand Rapids African American Art and Music Festival that is slated for Friday, Sept. 15 and Saturday, […]

todaySeptember 14, 2023 5

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Alicia Keys to Be Honored by Black American Music Association – Billboard

Alicia Keys, Grandmaster Flash and superstar producer/songwriters Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis are among the artists and executives slated to be honored at the inaugural ICE Medal of Honor celebration at Atlanta’s Morehouse College on Sunday, Oct. 15. The black-tie event, to be held in the college’s Ray Charles Performing Arts Center, is sponsored by The Black American Music Association. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, […]

todaySeptember 13, 2023 5

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“The Great American Trailer Park Musical” Opens at Lyric Stage Studio

Grown Media photo for Lyric Stage Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Great American Trailer Park Musical, presented by Lyric Stage, opens Friday for a month-long run. The musical is their first ever production in the new Lyric Stage Studio space in Dallas Design District. Described as “South Park meets Desperate Housewives” by the New York Sun, the warmhearted musical comedy follows Pippi, a stripper on the run. She’s the new tenant […]

todaySeptember 4, 2023 5

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Video Artists Set the American Experience to Music | At the Smithsonian

Roger Catlin Museums Correspondent A new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) can not only be viewed by the public—it can also be heard, and felt, and danced along to. The first major show of time-based media art at the museum in eight years, “Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies” features recent work from ten leading contemporary artists in the field, which includes film, video, audio […]

todayAugust 31, 2023 5

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Music Elites and the Oliver Anthony Conundrum – The American Spectator

One of our young staff, Luther Ray Abel, raised an interesting point the other day in one of our subscriber-only letters about the kinds of issues that divide conservative intellectuals, causing long-time friends to turn on each other and become ex-friends. Always one for comity and all hands on deck, it occurred to me: Is the quarrel Abel referred to, between one of our contributing editors and a fella at […]

todayAugust 22, 2023 5

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A divine voice forged in suffering: How Sinéad O’Connor’s early life mirrored my own… And music saved us both, writes American singer and songwriter ADELE BERTEI

Sinéad O'Connor was raw majesty and music was her God, her healing, writes American singer and songwriter Adele Bertei.On October 3rd, 1992, accompanied by a full orchestra, Sinéad performs her first song on Saturday Night Live; a fragile, nearly whispered version of Success (Has Made a Failure of Our Home).At the song's denouement, Sinéad improvises: 'I've never changed! I'm still the same!'Her desperation, naked now in true punk glory as […]

todayJuly 30, 2023 5

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