Hamilton performer, teacher and author Tania Hernandez first came across Miss Lou as a child on her native island of Jamaica, when she used to see the local icon on her black-and-white TV."Miss Lou ...

It took a while to record The Blossom Filled Streets, partly because the members of Movietone were playing and recording with ...

Reggae music originated in Jamaica in the 1960s. Its focus on social justice, as well as Rastafarian spiritual themes, also resonated with other popular folk music around the world at the time, such ...

Dawes, who has written dozens of books of poetry, fiction, essays and criticism, looks to celebrate Jamaican writing, oral ...

From the streets of Cairo and Tripoli to Morocco’s Sahel and Sudan's Nubian desert communities, Bob Marley’s musical legacy ...

After becoming the most-awarded artist in Grammys history, Beyoncé is back in contention, jockeying for 11 awards for Cowboy Carter — including her first country trophies and her still-elusive first ...

Beyoncé, the most-awarded and most-nominated artist in Grammys history, took home album of the year at the 67th Grammy Awards ...

Folk? Rock? Blues? Jazz? John Martyn was a mixture of all four and certainly one of the most progressive artists of his ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica -Music publication Rolling Stone on Monday rolled out its list of the “100 Best Protest Songs of All-Time ... War II jazz and sixties folk to eighties house music, 2000s ...

Special to the Gazette At 74 Green Street -at the corner of Green and Cheshire- stands a one-story brick and frame building close to the street. It’s façade is mostly unassuming, the repurposed face ...

One thing that is constant about life is there is always going to be change. Whether it's something that is forced upon people which causes them to adjust and adapt, or people are in seek of a ...