Click through the slideshow for a roundup of big acts coming soon to the Capital Region. BoDeans, July 31, Skyloft. Wisconsin roots rockers in business for more than three decades. George Lopez, Aug.

Part of what this whole City Slang thing is all about is delving into and discovering genres of music, little musical subcultures, that you, the reader, and I, the writer, may not have previously been ...

1 Listen: Sam Reid's THE VAMPIRE LESTAT Unveils New Single Ahead of AMC Premiere "We honor the deepest roots of the tree when we acknowledge mother Africa," says Arturo O'Farrill. "Afrobeat is many ...

At the 1978 Berliner Jazztage, Fela Kuti did not simply perform; he staged a political, spiritual and musical confrontation ...

A free concert in Coney Island will celebrate the music of Fela Kuti, the Nigerian artist who fused funk and jazz with African rhythms to create Afrobeat. “Fela! the Concert,” at the Ford Amphitheater ...

PUTNEY — Next Stage Arts is welcoming a New Orleans-style jazz septet and an afrobeat and funk supergroup at two shows this weekend. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, the Soggy Po Boys will bring the ...

Fela! The broadway concert celebrates the songs of Fela Kuti, the founding father of Afrobeat – a blend of jazz, funk and African rhythm and harmonies. The concert started on a beautiful note with the ...

AS the world, celebrates the life and works of Nigeria’s foremost musical icon, late Fela Anikulapo Kuti who passed on 22 years, Inspiro Productions in partnership with The Lekki Coliseum (TLC) are ...

Nearly 25 years after the death of Nigerian music legend Fela Kuti, his son Femi and grandson Made are taking his Afrobeat sound to the United States. With their double album "Legacy +", the father ...