On September 12th, Nelson drove down to the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion, in Camden. His band, a four-piece, was dressed all in ...

Compas, a beloved Haitian music and dance genre inspired by merengue and infused with percussion, has made UNESCO’s cultural ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Compas, a beloved Haitian music and dance genre inspired by merengue and infused with percussion, made UNESCO’s cultural heritage list on Wednesday. The syncopated rhythm, ...

A month after igniting the crowd at Miami’s Compas Festival, Haitian konpa star Richard Cave extends his microphone to a fan as he performs with his band KAI and delivers another electrifying ...

Legendary guitarist André “Dadou” Pasquet, who founded Haitian konpa band Magnum Band in Miami in the 1970s, is dead. He was 72. Miami Herald Archives He was a beacon of Haitian culture whose riveting ...

It hasn't been an easy few years for Haiti's homegrown musical sound. Crisis in the Caribbean has kept artists from touring, COVID has dampened gatherings and ongoing immigration enforcement in the ...

Daniel Moattar Fiction I read The Catch a while ago, and have thought about it quite a lot, and I’m still not sure what ...

There was something for everyone this year, but IndieWire’s annual critics survey sought to find consensus on a diverse collection of movies. 148 critics hailing from six continents participated in ...

As DEI battles and funding shifts roil campuses, music programs from UCLA to Juilliard continue to grow. THR ranks the 20 schools shaping the next generation of composers. By Jeff Bond Conservatories ...

A federal judge says she plans to rule quickly on a Georgia man's assertion that his execution next week should be halted. An ...

Three days after news broke about two North Texas men’s stranger-than-fiction plot to subjugate a Haitian island, two former federal prosecutors told NPR on Sunday that their clients plan to plead not ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dozens of people in Haiti’s capital have been killed in a clash between a powerful gang coalition and a group of armed men that apparently broke away from it, with 10 ...