CARACAS (Reuters) - Many of the finest performers in the classical music world are flocking to Venezuela to get a taste of the country's lauded youth music education system that teaches kids from ...

Rawayana, a band composed of Venezuelan émigrés whose trippy, Caribbean-soaked pop has earned it global acclaim, was riding high. Late last year the group had just been nominated for a Grammy, been ...

El Sistema is a publicly financed music education program founded in Venezuela in 1975 by Venezuelan educator, musician, and activist José Antonio Abreu. Its motto is "Music for Social Change." One of ...

Venezuelan band Rawayana announced Tuesday night (Dec. 3) that its tour scheduled for this month in Venezuela was canceled, two days after President Nicolas Maduro criticized its recent hit “Veneka” ...

Mark Brown has spent years traveling around Venezuela, talking and playing with some of the country's folk musicians. Brown, who lived in Caracas and New York for most of his life before moving to ...

Imagine a television station’s simultaneous live broadcast from downtown Caracas, Venezuela, and downtown L.A. on Monday night. On one side of a split screen is an inferno. Outraged Venezuelans are ...

Los Llanos is a vast plain that stretches across the border of Venezuela and Colombia. And joropo is the music that sets the rhythm of daily life in a land of ranches and cattle herding. It's a ...

Lina Yamin and six other musicians found themselves breathing heavily as they held back tears while performing Monday for a special crowd. The 33-year-old from Venezuela said the musicians, most of ...