During rehearsal, the music is spiritually uplifting for members of the Jamaican Folk Revue. In the church meeting room, they tell stories through lyrics, about love and marriage, dance and games, … ...

After 15 years together, Campion Dance Society mounted its 13th Season of Dance with Nexxus at the Little Theatre this past ...

Amanda Petrusich on Jamaica’s dancehall-music scene and the book “Serious Things A Go Happen: Three Decades of Jamaican Dancehall Signs,” by Maxine Walters.

This company was founded in 1971 in Montego Bay as the Western Jamaica Folk Dance Company; in 1978 it moved to Chicago, where Baker changed the name to reflect the addition of dancers from ...

Abstract Nachania (नचंनिया), translated as ‘female dancer’, refers to both a traditional Indo-Jamaican folk dance that has local origins in indentureship, and to those who perform it. The dance is ...

People just want to get up and dance and it’s an exciting thing to see.” The company is based in Jamaica, but all aspects of Caribbean and black culture are included in the show, said Walker, with ...

A Jamaican folk group formed in a Bristol hair salon will be singing with Jamaican elders to mark the Caribbean island's independence day.

Founder of the Jamaican Folk Singers, musicologist, memory bank pioneer, violinist, soprano and so much more. Rest in Peace,” wrote Ellington.

What started off with pointed toes and pounding hearts in the early days of their journey to create a dance school has now grown into one of Guyana’s top-tier dance institutions. The Unique Arts Dance ...

Recently back from a trip to Jamaica, Richard Edson of the Folk Art Gallery has mounted an exhibit of Jamaican artists of African descent. The works of these artists — painters, sculptors and… ...

A Jamaican folk group formed in a Bristol hair salon will be singing with Jamaican elders to mark the Caribbean island's independence day.