Hear music drawn from the Epic of Sunjata of the Mandé people in West Africa; the epic of Manas of the Kyrgyz people; and music based on ancient Norse Edda and Icelandic Rimur.

Hear some of the most ancient of stories: The Epic of Gilgamesh; The Tale of the Heike (Japan); Anglo-Saxon Beowulf; and the Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata -all set to contemporary music.

Vibraphonist, composer, arranger, and educator Nikara Warren is a Brooklynite, born and raised. She leads Nikara Presents Black Wall Street at Bar LunÀtico on Friday, Jan. 16. 

Jan. 16-17 marks the 40th annual Golden Festival, a celebration of Balkan folk music and dance founded by the band Zlatne Uste. The Music, Dance, and Joy are at the Marquee Astoria.

Qawwali music, the Sufi devotional style from Pakistan, goes back to the 13th century and the Saami family has kept that tradition going for almost 800 years. They perform in-studio.

Hear music by Grammy-winning singer and film composer Carla Patullo, producer and artist Dawn Richard with producer Spencer Zahn, and multi-instrumentalist Darian Donovan Thomas.

Klezmer music may have its roots in the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, but it found a home here in NY in the 1920s and 30s, and the klezmer revival that began almost a half cen...

The British band Public Service Broadcasting describes their work as "Teaching the lessons of the past through the music of the future", (Bandcamp). Their songs are often built on sam...