Rattles and clappers -- Drums -- Xylophones and 'sansas' -- Bill-roarers and spinning-disks -- Horns and trumpets -- Whistles, flutes and vibrating reeds -- Reed ...

Sound Check is the Globe’s weekly guide to concerts, tunes, and trends rooted in Boston and beyond. This column covers Nov. 28-Dec. 4. Jimmy Lim, an assistant professor at Berklee College of Music, ...

Today's Beautiful Music is a lovely, lively playlist of Indigenous Music of Latin America. The selections represent a wide variety of traditional music, instruments, dancing, and attire from various ...

Mexican composer Blas Galindo brings the range of musical flavors from Mexico, like Indigenous instruments and Spanish rhythms, into his festive Sones De Mariachi. Hear it today on 91.1, 107.5, and ...

Louis Wayne Ballard -- or "Honga-no-zhe," meaning "Grand Eagle" in Quapaw -- was born on July 8, 1931, in Devil's Promenade, Okla., near Miami. His mother was Quapaw; his father Cherokee. At 6, he was ...

The sound of Indigenous communities isn’t limited to flutes and Tom-tom drums! Despite what popular Western culture may have you thinking, the sound of Indigenous communities isn’t limited to flutes ...

The National Music Centre (NMC) has opened a national call for applications for the 2026 OHSOTO’KINO Recording Bursary, ...

This year, Indigenous History Month comes with the tragic news of 215 First Nations children found buried in the former site of a residential school in Kamloops, BC. Though the headlines sent ...

For years, the Golden Melody Awards (GMAs) have spotlighted Taiwanese Indigenous music. At this year’s event, Makav, a member of Taiwan‘s indigenous Bunun tribe, clinched the coveted Best New Artist ...

Tory Johnston is an enrolled member of the Quinault Indian Nation and a lecturer in American Indian Studies at the University of Washington. He grew up in the Quinault Indian reservation on the ...