From Tavares' African American Heritage Celebration to Bikefest, discover a wide array of events happening across our region ...

5:30 p.m. Feb. 13. North Buena Vista Civic Association, 2039 Orange Drive, Holiday. Free coffee, donuts, or muffins. Snack ...

For the enslaved Africans, music – rhythm in particular – became a tool of communication about their conditions. Later, it ...

John Wallace "Wally" Fowler, original founder of iconic country-gospel quartet The Oak Ridge Boys, was born on Feb. 15, 1917, ...

Ryan Napier and Clifton Jones talk gospel music and preview their Feb. 28, performance at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, The Good News Experience: A Journey Through Gospel Music.

There’s a well-known saying that the most segregated hour in the U.S. is 11 a.m. on Sunday. That aphorism reflects the longstanding reality that 86% of churches lacked meaningful racial diversity as ...

UPPER MARLBORO, Maryland (RNS) — Thousands of fans of gospel music giant Richard Smallwood bid him farewell in a music-filled funeral on Saturday (Jan. 24), as family and friends of the composer ...

A new wave of artists is transcending traditional notions of Christian music, drawing young global audiences to faith-based rap, Afrobeats and R&B.

It’s a full day of live gospel music — hosted by Hilo Seventh-Day Adventist Church — that brings together local musicians, ...

Avalon Emerson pulls double duty as a dance DJ and a dream pop enchanter, and she's back in her sweet spot on "Jupiter and Mars," the latest single from her newly announced sophomore album Written ...

What started as a chorus that rapper Nasty C wrote for himself during a low moment in his life has now turned into a message of hope and upliftment with a music video that drives the point home. The ...

Long before record deals. Long before stages and spotlights. Black music in Syracuse was born in two places: the church and the community.