When a community is shattered by violence, Dayvin Hallmon and his musicians start repairing the cracks. Hallmon is the founder and music director of the Black String Triage Ensemble, a Milwaukee-based ...

For the last two years, Black String Triage Ensemble has hosted a public rehearsal at the Washington Park bandshell. Rehearsal didn’t go as planned one Sunday afternoon in May. “We started playing, ...

Rachel Zeak (left) and Michelle Grill play their violins during a recent Wehnwood Community String Ensemble rehearsal at Wehnwood United Methodist Church. There are many ways a church can make a ...

If all goes according to plan, the Black String Triage Ensemble will be assembled and activated to bring music and healing to Chicago’s scenes of violence and sorrow by August. “It’s too important to ...

On Saturday night, the block between East Locust Street and East Geneva Place in Milwaukee became a crime scene. A fight had broken out inside the dance club Miramar Theatre when an assailant fired ...

This post was updated May 22 at 9:43 p.m. Community and tradition inspire the performers of the Old-Time String Band and African American Music Ensemble. Each class of musical performers has shared a ...

For the 40th anniversary edition of its Candlelight Carols program, the St. Charles Singers and its founder and artistic director Jeffrey Hunt will be joined by the Metropolis String Ensemble. The ...

The Bridle Path/Montgomery Elementary Select String Ensemble has been accepted to participate in the 2017 Symphonic Series at the acclaimed Carnegie Hall in New York City on Monday, March 26. “I am ...

On Sunday April 1, the McGlynn String Ensemble, under the direction of Sophia Chang, received the highest score to win a Gold Medal rating from the Massachusetts Instrumental and Chorus Conductor’s ...

When Bob Dylan sang that "he who isn't busy being born is busy dying" on his epochal 1965 album "Bringing It All Back Home," he could have been talking about the precarious dynamic that either keeps a ...

MANKATO — Charlie Leftridge and the Carnegie Art Center go together like paint and brushes, so it won’t be shocking to see his work incorporated into Saturday’s Live at the Carnegie event with Twin ...