We spoke to Robert Randolph, The Teskey brothers, Taj Farrant and , Kanchan Daniel, about the past and future of blues.

The African lute, called the ngoni, xalam, or kora depending on the region and culture, has a rich history dating back ...

Combined with the African rhythms, these musical styles were the foundation of blues. The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in ...

The Blues Trail was created nearly two decades ago with markers located at significant places that helped shape the genre.

The influence of African music is widespread. Elements can be heard in blues, gospel, jazz and Latin American music due to the historic movement of African slaves to the Americas. Millions of ...

Florida’s Got the Blues,” is a traveling exhibit that examines the influence the blues had on the music community, the ...

“She did. I do. Our children too.” This is not to say “Black in Blues” is about music, although that’s part of it. But more to the point, it is a book of questions. “Still, I wondered ...

The music of African Americans is one of the most poetic and inescapable examples of the importance ... TN Smithsonian American Art Museum Rhythmic Blues National Museum of African American History ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...

Africa remains deeply traditional, rooted in age-old customs and traditions that are inseparable from music and dance.” Chandler produced a run of cultural festivals in Mali. Songhoy Blues ...

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...