Masterful. Mesmerizing. Magnificent. Sunday night at the nearly sold-out Akron Civic Theatre, New Orleans native Jon Batiste brought a two-hour spectacle that turned a concert into something closer to ...

Derick “Rah” Peters recently delineated with demonstrable historical knowledge, the germination of Bouyon music as a ” fully African” seed, in the landscape of the Nature Isle, and the journey of its ...