From Veracruz to Virginia Organized in partnership with the Fandango de Durham festival and the Floyd Country Store, this event will highlight the relationship between Mexican and Appalachian music. The event will feature Dr. Sophia Enríquez, Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Music at Duke [...]
2023 Kennedy Creek Old Time Music Workshops The Kennedy Creek Old-Time Music Festival takes place every autumn at the Kennedy Creek Resort in Suches, GA. Participants are invited to reserve cabins, yurts, or campsites, and food is available at the resort restaurant. Guest artists lead [...]
2023 Kennedy Creek Old Time Music Concert: The Short House Serenaders Close out a day of Old Time Music at the Kennedy Creek Old Time Music Festival by joining us for a concert with the Short House Serenaders and friends. The Short House Serenaders [...]
Scott Joplin's Ragtime In this lecture recital, distinguished performer and scholar, Marilyn Nonken, performs and speaks to the music of Scott Joplin (1868-1917) and his collaborators Scott Hayden (1882-1915), Arthur Marshall (1881-1968), and Louis Chauvin (1882-1908). These early-twentieth-century American artists formed a tightly-knit community, [...]
Ozarks Today: A Preview of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2023 The Ozarks are filled with rich musical traditions and the artists that keep them alive. At the same time, newer musical expressions are thriving as areas like Northwest Arkansas grow and expand. This concert is [...]
HipHop Literacies Conference Register Now The 2023 HipHop Literacies Conference is co-sponsored by the American Musicological Society's Many Musics of America project. Held at The Ohio State University, the HipHop Literacies Conference is an academic-community event designed to explore issues relevant to the lives [...]
The Evolution of Fife and Drum Music The Rising Stars Fife and Drum Band, led by Sharde Thomas of Cold Water, Mississippi, presents a mixture folk, blues, and pop in the traditional style of fife and drum music that has been [...]
Dayton Funk & Line Dancing In conjunction with the AMS Midwest chapter meeting on March 18, 2023, this event will explore Dayton Funk and line dancing. Participants will learn classic styles of line dancing from the 1960s to the 1990s and [...]
Sea Shanties - From Ship to Shore Organized in partnership with the AMS New England Chapter and the world-renowned Peabody Essex Museum, this event will explore the history of sea shanties and new England's maritime history with live music-making interspersed with short [...]
Making the K-12 Orchestra Ethically Inclusive Classrooms have seen a rise in Black and Latino populations, and they are projected to account for 54% of US public-school enrollment in 2023. Nevertheless, primary and secondary school orchestral programs struggle to maintain consistent enrollment and funding cuts [...]
