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‘Guitars Over Guns’ Keeps Kids Off Mean Streets With Celebrity Jams
Chad Bernstein, a premiere Latin, funk and jazz artist, has played with the likes of Shakira, Pharrell, Jennifer Hudson and Pitbull. But most notably he...
Caroline Kennedy Had Played With Japanese Dolls, Now Meets 92-yo Sender
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A mystery has been unraveled for U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, who has been searching for the sender of a set of Japanese...
Rocker Jack White Rescues Music Archives of Paramount Importance
At the root and heart of so much great American music were the blues and jazz players that came out of the Mississippi Delta...
Radio Show Sparks Good Deed Movement
The Bobby Bones Show, a nationally-syndicated radio morning show, has sparked a movement that reminds people to be joyful in honor of a co-host's mother,...
The Guinean City That Overcame Ebola
Elsewhere in Guinea the Ebola virus continues to spread, but in Telimele, a town of 300,000 located 160 miles (270 km) north of the...
Weekly ‘Pop-up Picnic’ Builds Community in Oakland
No one knows exactly who started it, but since spring, people who live in Oakland, California have been showing up Sunday afternoons for a...
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars Sing to Heal Wounds of War
Rocker Tom Petty doesn't know what it really means "to live like a refugee," but the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars band does, and they make music...
Happiness Booster for the Public: Playing Harmonica Together
Local people in Gateshead, England were invited to learn to play harmonicas together for a short film created as a metaphor for health and happiness.
As...
How Art Helps Us Communicate Love and Forgiveness to the World
JUSTIN ST. VINCENT is the Director and Founder of Xtreme Music: where Music meets Spirituality, based in Auckland, New Zealand. He served on the Fetzer...
Musician Gives Concerts, Guitars to Inmates
Wayne Kramer and his musician friends have been in and out of jails and prisons across the United States. They are helping to change lives through his...
Personal Songs Offer Musical Medicine to Sick Kids
Megan Ford, whose stubborn leukemia is blasted every Friday with chemotherapy, jumped at the chance to receive a song made especially for her.
The organization...
Unique Festival Lets Artists Trade Their Work for Healthcare
More than 100 musicians, painters and performers took part this year in the second annual "O+" Festival in Kingston, New York. Named for the...
Blind Band Student to March in Rose Parade
A local marching band will have two musicians in the Tournament of Roses Parade Tuesday. Mi So Kwak will play the flute for the...
“LandFillHarmonic” Orchestra Plays With Instruments Made of Trash
In Paraguay there is a town essentially built atop a landfill where adults pick through the latest heaps of trash for sellable goods and...
Tribute to Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck (1920-2012)
Jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck died Wednesday -- a day before his ninety-second birthday. He was best known for his 1959 album "Time...
Springsteen, Bon Jovi and Sting to Star in Hurricane Benefit Concert Friday
Superstar musicians born in the New York-New Jersey area will perform at Rockefeller Plaza Friday, part of a benefit concert for victims of Hurricane...
New Crop of MacArthur Fellows Get Half Million Each to Expand on Their Genius
23 people learned recently that they had been picked to receive $500,000 each to fund their work, with no strings attached.
Known as genius grants,...
Stradivarius Violin Found On Train, Turned In By Good Samaritan
A Stradivarius violin – possibly worth several million dollars – has been handed in to a lost-and-found office in Switzerland office after a hapless...
Orchestra Brings Joy In Midst of Desperate Congo
For decades, everything to come out of the Democratic Republic of Congo has not been good: civil war, child soldiers and atrocities against women....
Comics Support Amnesty Intl at Secret Policeman’s Ball American Debut
After a four-year absence, the Secret Policeman's Ball, a longtime comedy staple in Britain, returned Sunday night, holding its first fundraising show ever in...