"Plantation"

Glastonbury live: Saturday with Coldplay, Little Simz, Orbital and more – as it happened

Cyndi Lauper, Jessie Ware, the Breeders and more performed on the second day at Worthy Farm, along with a secret set from Kasabian

Laura Snapes, Elle Hunt, Ben Beaumont-Thomas and Gwilym Mumford

30, Jun, 2024 @12:25 AM

Rock on, Shostakovich, Handel, Ravel: lives of great composers hit the screens

Torment, rebellion and tragedy are major themes as a rash of new biopics highlight the achievements and challenges of the musically gifted

Dalya Alberge

02, Jun, 2024 @12:00 PM

Sunday with Eddy Grant: ‘I’m surrounded by the best cooks in the world’

The muscian, 76, on life in Barbados, spending time in the studio and why he has never drunk or smoked

Rich Pelley

14, Apr, 2024 @5:00 AM

Massive Attack plan festival powered by 100% renewable energy

Band hope festival will be a prototype for an industry they say is not doing enough to reduce its environmental impact

Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent

05, Dec, 2023 @10:00 AM

‘It’s a charged place’: Parchman Farm, the Mississippi prison with a remarkable musical history

Inmates at this bucolic but brutal prison have long been singing the blues to sustain themselves, and a new compilation of gospel songs continues the legacy

Sheldon Pearce

20, Sep, 2023 @9:31 AM

‘When it hits a low C, it takes you to another dimension’: the musicians in love with obscure instruments

Why settle for a recorder when you could wield a contrabass clarinet – or something you invented yourself? Meet the players drawn to the unusual

Kevin Le Gendre

18, Aug, 2023 @10:00 AM

Meshell Ndegeocello: ‘Making music is the rare moment that I feel raceless and genderless’

Three decades on from her US Top 3 moment and weathering the loss of her parents, the singer explains how she has carved out a space for herself to be whatever she wants

Daniel Felsenthal

19, Jun, 2023 @9:12 AM

‘Why has this person been erased?’: the untold story of the Black French maestro

In rousing new historical drama Chevalier, the story of Joseph Bologne, often crudely referred to as ‘Black Mozart’, is finally given the spotlight it deserves

David Smith in Washington

19, Apr, 2023 @5:42 AM

Angeline Morrison: ‘I can count on one hand the times I’ve been in a folk club with other people of colour’

On her haunting new album, the Birmingham-born Morrison sings of the Black British experience that folk music has overlooked. She talks about collective memory, making the genre more inclusive and working with Eliza Carthy

Garth Cartwright

07, Oct, 2022 @9:00 AM

Peter Brathwaite: ‘I’m taking it into my own hands to tell stories of our shared history’

As he rehearses a new children’s show at the Royal Opera House, the baritone recalls how he put lockdown to good use bringing Black history to Instagram

Charlotte Higgins

16, Dec, 2021 @2:00 PM

Jazz star Charles Lloyd: ‘Miles Davis wanted all the girls and money’

He played gigs to a young Elvis, got high with the Grateful Dead and made an enemy in Miles Davis. And, at 83, the saxophonist who collided jazz and rock still has his spirit of adventure