People often say that music is the great unifier. For instance, you can go to a concert and be surrounded by hundreds or thousands of strangers but everyone has at least one thing in common—love for ...

Nine-time Grammy Award-winning banjo player Bela Fleck is under the spell of traditional Chinese music. The New Yorker and his Sparrow Quartet band are enjoying their second tour of China and will ...

Abigail Washburn is an equally enthusiastic scholar of the Southern United States and the farthest reaches of East Asia, and she uses music to examine the deep connections between the two seemingly ...