A golf game between middle school music teachers may have determined the existence of one of the most innovative musical duos performing today. Wil Baptiste and Kevin Sylvester are the ...

When you think of classical music, chances are you don’t often think of an underlying hip-hop beat. That's where two musicians, Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus come in. The pair has been blending hip-hop ...

Black Violin will perform at SKyPAC Feb. 24. The sounds of hip hop – and classical music – will fill SKyPAC Feb. 24 as two-time Grammy-nominated Black Violin kicks off its 2023 tour. Black Violin was ...

This is something you won’t see every day at a concert billed as “classical”: a DJ working the turntables. Or a drummer banging out a solo in classic rock ‘n’ roll fashion, set against the backdrop of ...

Brothers Tourie and Damien Escobar were just young boys when they began earning money by playing the violin on New York's subways. While attending Julliard School of Music, they started incorporating ...

Generally speaking, when you think of performers who use stringed instruments such as the viola or violin, you likely picture stuffy aging white men, seated deep within the pit of a concert hall, each ...

Any music act with a unique sound — such as Black Violin’s fusion of classical music and hip-hop — is bound to sound familiar from album to album. But violinist Kev Marcus has no problem seeing a ...

Louisville has Jecorey “1200” Arthur – a musician known for his fusion of classical and hip hop music. But other musicians dabble in the same unique genre – including the duo Black Violin, made up of ...

Black Violin is taking what you think you know about the violin and turning it on its bow. Black Violin consists of classically trained string instrumentalists Kevin Sylvester (violin) and Wilner ...

Hang around the Internet long enough and you’re guaranteed to find a reason to feel bad about yourself. If it’s not your intelligence, morals or ideas being insulted, it’s your body. Whether you’re ...