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“If I can bring something beautiful to them, it tells them they matter,” said music thanatologist and Zion National Park artist-in-residence Catharine DeLong. “It tells them that they are alive.”

Salt Lake City Metal Vocalist Alec Lange has been perfecting his craft for 14 years, proving the stigma surrounding the genre false.

With the rise of collecting records, another forgotten way to play music has resurfaced too — cassette tapes. In Salt Lake City, local artists and labels have embraced the once-obsolete art of tape duplication.

Nationwide, people are surprised to find out their listening habits closely align with the BYU college town.

“Rhapsody in Blue” turns 100 next year, so pianist Jeffery Biegel commissioned “Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue” — a new composition that tips the hat to Gershwin while reflecting on the America of today.

Artists, musicians and vendors came from across the region to participate in áyA Con, an Indigenous Comic Con festival this past weekend. They reflected on Indigenous history and celebrated their culture.

The nearly century-old ethereal instrument is the innovation of French cellist and telegraph operator Maurice Martenot. Ondist Augustin Viard brought the rare instrument to Salt Lake City to perform with the Utah Symphony.

The work “Lost Freedom: Japanese American Confinement in America” brings together the music of Kenji Bunch and the narration of actor George Takei, who spent his childhood in internment camps during World War II. With hate crimes against those of Asian descent making headlines, Bunch calls art and music “our last best hope for coming together.”

You have to be looking for Juan Pablo Mijares’s violin shop to find it. The storefront is tucked deep behind an alleyway in downtown Colorado Springs....

Salt Lake City’s longest-running all-ages music venue, Kilby Court, is celebrating its 20th anniversary on Saturday, May 11. It’s more than a celebration…

This summer the Utah Symphony will perform free concerts in state and national parks around the state. The symphony’s August 29-September 2 tour will…

Little Simz has been compared to Lauryn Hill for her self-reflective wordplay. And though the British lyricist is a relative new-comer, her Tiny Desk performance was poised and confident.