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Ring in the new year with celebratory sounds from around the world.

Ring in the new year with celebratory sounds from around the world.

Ring in the new year with music from Chucho Valdés, José James, Ibrahim Maalouf and Ranky Tanky with Ms. Lisa Fischer.

The 18-time Grammy Award winner is the latest musician to cancel an show at the Kennedy Center. Béla Fleck says he cannot currently perform there because it "has become charged and political."

Meet 16-year-old harpist Catalina Vasquez Calderon, a junior at Northeast High School in Philadelphia, where she plays in orchestra, the Baroque ensemble, and marching band, and studies harp through a partnership between Northeast High School and the Lyra Society.

A century ago, they were a marquee duo. Today, guitarist Eddie Lang and violinist Joe Venuti are known only to jazz connoisseurs — but their story, originating in an Italian enclave of South Philadelphia, deserves to be widely known.

The 2026 NEA Jazz Masters are singer Carmen Lundy, keyboardist Patrice Rushen, percussionist Airto Moreira, and broadcaster Rhonda Hamilton. They'll be honored with a concert in April.

Banjo, harp and drums meet in the BEATrio, where Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda and Antonio Sánchez explore a sound they never planned to create. Hear how the trio first came together.

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This week's Fanfare offers an early cornucopia to send us off into Thanksgiving week, with performances from the Galilee Chamber Orchestra, The Crossing, Judith Ingolfsson and more.