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The musicians said they were performing in Kyiv at the invitation of Ukraine's president. They played acoustic versions of U2 hits and also shared the "stage" with the Ukrainian band Antytila.

Reverentially known as Pandit ("teacher"), Shivkumar Sharma took the hammered dulcimer from humble folk instrument to classical concert stages around the world. He died Tuesday in Mumbai.

The Jazz Night in America team highlights a selection of 2022 entries that caught our ears and displays the expanse of what jazz has to offer.

Monday, April 21, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Learn what experiences led Jorge Bergoglio to the highest office in the Catholic Church. Taking the name Francis, he is the first pope from the Americas, and the first non-European and first Jesuit priest to be named pope.

For Black History Month we are celebrating playwright August Wilson. His "Jitney" is currently on stage at the Old Globe Theatre (through Feb. 23). KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando spoke with the play's director Ruben Santiago-Hudson about Wilson's legacy and about adapting him to film.

A composer, performer and installation artist from the Navajo Nation, Chacon's winning piece, Voiceless Mass, was composed for chamber orchestra and a specific Milwaukee pipe organ.

The Black Took Collective is a performance group composed of three award-winning LGBTQ Black poet-performers: Duriel Harris, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Ronaldo V. Wilson. This event will consist of live writing, poetry, music, dance, drawing, film, and critical race theory presented in an engaging and lively format designed to encourage reconsideration of identity, language, and embodiment and enlist audience participation and conversation. Date | December 9 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Location | Online event The Black Took are queer post-theorists who embody intersectionality, perform and write in hybrid experimental forms, and embrace radical poetics and cutting-edge critical theory about race, gender, and sexuality, all while inviting audiences to participate and engage in the same. The Black Took Collective challenges both popular conceptions of racial identity as well as conventional artistic practices. Their performance events are unforgettable. Get your free tickets here! CSUSM Students: Free Community: Optional donation Faculty/Staff/Alumni: Optional donation  Co-sponsors: CHABSS Dean’s Office, Ethnic Studies Research Collaboratory, FMST, LTWR, WGSS For more information, please visit csusm.edu/al or email gjones@csusm.edu.

Prosecutors allege that Atlanta rapper Young Thug co-founded a violent street gang.

This weekend try a little cultural and biodiversity by sampling events from Centro Cultural De La Raza, Little Italy and the San Diego Natural History Museum.

Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022 at 3 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 4 at 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. on KPBS TV. Psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen, the author of “Your Brain Is Always Listening,” and his wife Tana Amen, an ICU nurse and author of "The Relentless Courage of a Scared Child," will show you how to tame the hidden dragons that cause these problems to help you feel happier, more positive and more in control of your own emotions.