Last year, Brazil lost one of its most famous musicians: Naná Vasconcelos, who put an instrument called the berimbau on the world's musical map. It's a kind of bow with a gourd attached, and it is the ...

When Provincetown musician Roxanne Layton was six, her father encouraged her to take up the recorder. He was building a large schooner and intended to take her on a long voyage and thought a portable ...

We’ve covered construction of novel music instruments on these pages, and we’ve covered many people tearing down scientific instruments. But today we’ve got something that managed to cross over from ...

As Nova Scotians prepare to observe the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, it’s important to honor the traditions and cultural practices of Indigenous communities. Among the most powerful ...