NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans has just been named a UNESCO Creative City of Music, joining an elite network of cities known for their art and culture. To get the designation, New Orleans & Company ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Compas, a beloved Haitian music and dance genre inspired by merengue and infused with percussion, made UNESCO’s cultural heritage list on Wednesday. The syncopated rhythm, ...

An American soprano who sang when the United States rejoined UNESCO weighed in on the agency’s addition of Italian opera singing to a heritage list. By Farah Nayeri Is opera an endangered art form ...

SOURCE: New Orleans has been named a UNESCO Creative City of Music, joining nine other US cities in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, which recognizes the role of music in urban development and ...

Adelaide Festival Centre will join the annual global celebrations for UNESCO's International Jazz Day with performances by the acclaimed Thomas Voss Big Band and Enne R. Project at Dunstan Playhouse ...

The UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World included more than a hundred pioneering audio recordings of the world's traditional music published from 1961 to 2003 on a number of different ...

June 27 (UPI) --Popular K-pop group Seventeen has been appointed as UNESCO's first-ever Goodwill Ambassador for Youth. The boy group received a letter of appointment from UNESCO Director-General ...

Kansas City is known worldwide for the jazz legends that called this city home. But local musicians say the city should do more to uplift its present-day musicians and the music industry. Music is in ...

On World Cities Day 2025, UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay designated 58 cities as new members of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN), including New Orleans. Recognized for their ...

UNESCO has officially named New Orleans a "Creative City of Music," alongside 57 other new member cities added to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network on World Cities Day, an annual United Nations ...