The Redstone Room in Davenport is not typically known as a dance club, but it likely will be hopping next Thursday with the return of Chicago Afrobeat Project. According to the group's Web site, ...

Catching Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra, the Valley’s most dynamic and compelling live act, in concert is reason enough to attend ...

If the “Fela!” review on this page has you in the mood for Afrobeat and reggae music, the season’s first Summer Dance at Landmark Center in downtown St. Paul on Thursday, June 14, is just the thing.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Tamara Ebo says the area around her Devastation Dance Company and Academy is a “gym desert”. There is not a traditional fitness center within a 10 minute drive from the dance ...

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What's that you say? This year's summer solstice was on June 24? Fine. But the much more musical Summer Soulstice 6: Afrobeat Dance Party happens Friday at White Water Tavern in Little Rock. That's ...

“We have eight people out right now, and we're all in one van with no trailer,” says NOMO bandleader and saxophonist Elliot Bergman. “It's like the Ringling Brothers' clown car, Russian nesting dolls ...

You wouldn't necessarily call NOMO a jazz group, though as a touring band it certainly could pass for one. A week ago at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, it carried a front line of trumpet, ...

It’s 2014 and high time you got some new music into your playlist — seriously. And that’s doubly true when it comes local music, of which there’s an abundance in metro Phoenix. The Valley’s music ...

Allen died Thursday night at the Pompidou Hospital of an aortic aneurysm, his manager Eric Trosset confirmed to The Associated Press. In an influential career that spanned decades and continents, ...

JOHANNESBURG — Pioneering drummer Tony Allen, the driver of the Afrobeat sound, has died in Paris at age 79. Allen died Thursday night at the Pompidou Hospital of an aortic aneurysm, his manager Eric ...