From gold rush towns to Mardi Gras parades, brass and concert bands have been the musical backbone of Australian communities over a century.

Tokyo-born flutist Kozo Toyota fell for Irish music after hearing fiddle tunes in Tokyo Disneyland. He co-founded a Celtic trio, which marries traditional Irish repertoire with contemporary grooves ...

Columnist Tom Lubnau writes, "In 2014, a Russian sound engineer named Leonid Vorobyev decided to give himself an unusual 60th birthday present. Instead ...

Principal clarinettist with the CBSO, Oli Janes talks about the elegies, raucous dances and virtuoso fireworks of Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, which the orchestra performs in April.

Sleep experts say using a white noise machine can improve sleep. Here, editor-tested picks from Hatch, HoMedics, YogaSleep and more.

Music, live music especially, is one of the few places real community and joy can be found, so go find it.  Figure Eight / Spiderling / Yudai at Swan Dive - March 11, more info here East Forest at ...

Maine Public is a media sponsor of The Academy of St Martin in the Fields Wind Ensemble presented by Portland Ovations. The wind ensemble of the acclaimed Academy of St Martin in the Fields is a ...

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. From Tudor Queens to Pop Icons, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the microphone to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into a ...

Enter a world of splendor and romance, of eye-popping excess, of glitz, grandeur and glory! A world where Bohemians and aristocrats rub elbows and revel in electrifying enchantment. Pop the champagne ...