3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (375+ words) A Southeastern Louisiana University instructor has been selected to represent Louisiana in a nationwide program highlighting American musical history as the United States commemorates its 250th anniversary. Everette Scott Smith, Southeastern’s instructor of double reeds and historical musicology, was chosen by…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (644+ words) With his mandolin playing and his high, lonesome tenor voice, Bill Monroe gave birth to the bluegrass genre. More of an alchemist than an ordinary musician, Monroe fused gospel harmonies and Celtic fiddles with blues, jazz, and folk music to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (515+ words) Wyoming native and country music star Ian Munsick, left, is shown with recent University of Wyoming music graduate Jacob Walker after meeting to discuss Walker’s marching band arrangement of Munsick’s song “Love Is Blind.” When alumnus Jacob Walker was in…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (12+ words) Millersville University Tell School of Music News...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1100+ words) The University of Arkansas music performance season kicks into gear Monday night with the start of the Music Monday series. The first concert features the brass septet Zen Brass. This is the first of what will be more than 200 concerts…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (746+ words) Ken Dye and Larry Dwyer ’66, longtime stewards of the Notre Dame band’s tradition of excellence, march into retirement. “I went to a school assembly and the school band played the ‘Notre Dame Victory March,’ and I thought, ‘That’s a really…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (301+ words) Folk rock legend Richard Thompson will be in concert at Lighthouse Poole next month. After co-founding the pioneering British folk rock group Fairport Convention as a teenager in the 1960s, Richard enjoyed a career spanning more than five decades. He left…...