Juan Dies grew up in Mexico learning the regional music of San Luis Potosi where he lived. He played guitar and sang in the style that was special to that small region and included a type of yodeling.

“Bugs!” the 1st-grader at St. Paul’s Lutheran School shouted enthusiastically. No, we weren’t in the middle of an entomology lesson. I was giving a demonstration on the didgeridoo, using the actual ...

Music started tugging at the sleeve at the age of three for Thana Alexa, a New York based singer who began making music there as a violinist, moved to Croatia where she discovered jazz, and returned ...