Dave Kennedy, founder of the Roots Music Project, is a gigging musician in a couple of acts, but he didn’t begin playing seriously until his forties. That’s when his kids started going to a Boulder ...

More than 50 bluegrass, Americana and country musicians trade deep-cut holiday songs, unexpected collaborations and festive ...

One of hip-hop's best, most beloved, and longest-lasting groups is The Roots. These are three deep cuts from the group.

The Roots of Music has reached a major milestone with the purchase of a permanent campus in the former site of St. Gabriel Catholic Church in Pontchartrain Park. What began as a six-week summer drum ...

Homewood-based Trail Mix Productions, which has produced a mostly acoustic concert series annually, will present its first Trail Mix Roots Music Series show to begin its outdoor season. The Lowest ...

Derrick Tabb, Roots co-founder and executive director, said he was inspired to create the program after his junior-high band director took a special interest in him. “He saved my life,” said Tabb, who ...

Young Roots of Music Marching Crusaders march in the Krewe of Proteus parade on the Uptown route in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018. The Krewe of Orpheus rolled with 20 floats to the theme, "Graces ...

MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: Musician Rhiannon Giddens is on a quest. And the facts of her own life are a compelling metaphor for the path she's forging. Born in 1977 to a Black mother and a white father, ...

Billy Strings and Sierra Ferrell, 2023 and 2024's Americana Honors & Awards-winning Artists of the Year, share a background as street-busking musicians who played for tens to hundreds of dollars daily ...

Time to face the music? Frank "Knuckles" Walker, former drummer of Philadelphia's The Roots, is suing the band's Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and alleging that he was ...

Organizers of the Roots Picnic posted an apology on social media Sunday after some attendees said they waited hours to get through security on the first day of the music festival. Doors for the ...