Sad news reached the World Beat desk this week that Prof Dr Terry E. Miller of Kent State University in the US passed away on ...

The project—both "The Most Wanted" and "The Most Unwanted Song"—came out in 1997 as a two-song CD. When reviewing it for the ...

This isn’t a eulogy for Michael Eugene Archer, known professionally as D’Angelo. There are already plenty of those.

Springsteen sings in a compelling voice that runs the gamut from screaming blues to country to rock, and he makes the run ...

Methuen Memorial Music Hall​ was built by a very wealthy man just to house one spectacular instrument - The Great Organ.

A bird’s-eye view of the organ removal project at University Place Christian Church. Crews from Buzard Pipe Organ Builders disassemble and pack up the organ at University Place Christian Church in ...

Beating Time – The Story of the Irish Bodhrán is Fintan Vallely’s latest book and in it he conducts a hugely comprehensive investigation into the background of the bodhrán in Ireland – a ‘cold-case’ ...

The world's largest theater pipe organ can be found in a Franklin warehouse. The massive instrument is the brainchild of Paul Woelbing. When Woelbing is asked why he put the theater organ together, he ...

Archaeologists have discovered instruments dating back over 40,000 years, with some of the oldest being flutes carved from bird bones and mammoth ivory. These strange, haunting instruments are the ...

A Toledo musician has opened a museum to preserve the history of sacred steel, an African American gospel tradition built around the steel guitar.

A tucked away, historic set of thousands of pipes will accompany a classic silent film with a Wichita native star.