entertainment - "music"

Rapper Foxy Brown is to be released from prison next week, her manager tells US music magazine Billboard.

London, UK - Two fascinating musical projects which explore the roots of the Blues from America to Africa as parf of Barbican's Contemporary music Programme Spring 2008. Blues: Back to the Source, with Otis Taylor and Bassekou Kouyate will take place Monday, 28 April at 8pm. Award-winning blues banjoist Otis Taylor's new live project and CD Recapturing the Banjo is a musical voyage which celebrates the one instrument to survive the Atlantic slave trade¬, the banjo, which thus become one of the most popular and distinctly American of instruments. Originally played by slaves who built banjos out of scrap materials in an attempt to recreate the We...

Grupo Fantasma - Comes Alive (Airesol Records ASCD007, 2006) Brownout - Homenaje (Freestyle Records FSRCD033, 2007) Ocote Soul Sounds and Adrian Quesada - The Alchemist Manifesto (ESL music ESL 130, 2008) I really must get to Austin, Texas one of these days. I keep hearing about what a great multicultural city it is, with a music scene to match. Based on some recent recorded evidence I've received, the Latin side of that scene ce...

Ready, maestro; start your engines.

LONDON (Billboard) - As a music lover who grew up in a tiny Welsh town, 23-year-old U.K. chart phenomenon Aimee Duffy is struggling to comprehend her sudden popularity.

Listen responsibly.Such an admonition might seem trite or unnecessary. But after this week's thwarting turn of events in the Philadelphia Orchestra's music-director hunt, even smart ears might need to be reminded of the only thing that matters.

Struggling musician Peter Bretter has spent six years idolizing his girlfriend, television star Sarah Marshall. He's the guy left holding her purse in paparazzi photos and accidentally omitted from acceptance award speeches.

VPage: Susan Sarandon, Steve Buscemi among guests -- To celebrate the Brooklyn Academy of music's spring gala April 9, Paul Simon treated Gothamites to two hours of uninterrupted hits during a concert entitled Under African Skies highlighting the sounds of South Africa.

Artists and industry personnel representing all facets of the Christian/gospel music community will gather April 19-23 in Nashville for GMA music Week, the Gospel music Assn.'s annual gathering.

Margaret Martin is, to say the least, a highly unlikely choice to write the book, lyrics and music for a major West End musical version of 'Gone With the Wind.'