Join Face2Face Africa as we share with you the top 10 African songs of 2025. The list is in no particular order.

Regina Carter, the jazz violinist and onetime MacArthur Fellow, stopped by NPR headquarters recently to perform and discuss material from her new album, Reverse Thread. The record marks a new ...

Walter Jones Jr., a singer and storyteller with the Griot Circle, a Baltimore-based West African cultural organization, sings a traditional African folk song for the audience at Saturday's Stories and ...

An early student of Pablo Casals, Fred Katz is best known as the seminal jazz cellist in Chico Hamilton's breakthrough chamber jazz quintet of the 1950s. With a lengthy list of credits to his oeuvre, ...

African music, with its distinctive emphasis on polyrhythm and beats flowing from percussive instruments, was long treated as subordinate in the international music arena. Music from the continent ...

Violinist Zoe Aqua and the string band the Ebony Hillbillies will share a stage on Thursday at Gowanus club Littlefield. (New York Jewish Week) – Two folk music traditions that developed on opposite ...

The song “I Can’t Breathe” stretched the Notre Dame Folk Choir. It’s unlike the other 10 songs on their new album, “Catch the Spirit,” which are all spiritual, all providing comfort and strength from ...

With a 50-piece orchestra, a 40-voice chorus, acclaimed soloists — including regular Seattle Opera collaborator Brandie Sutton — and an emcee appearance from Washington state Sen. T’wina Nobles, ...

A composer of great stature, Professor James Stephen Mzilikazi Khumalo (1932-2021) stands out for his contribution to South African arts and culture. He was a distinguished teacher, a professor of ...