The cool breeze off the Potomac River convinced the crowds at this year’s D.C. Jazz Festival from June 9-18 to dance – even as the temperatures crossed 90 degrees – as soon as “Kev Marcus” Sylvester ...
The members of Black Violin want to change perceptions about who can play what kind of music. Wil Baptiste on viola and Kev Marcus on violin met as high school orchestra nerds. Today they play ...
What do you get when classical music meets hip-hop, plus a little R&B, funk and rock? The answer is Black Violin, playing at the Charleston Gaillard Center at 7 p.m. March 8. They'll be joined on ...
Picture a classical concert violinist. What images does your imagination evoke? Let's get obvious givens out of the way: a dazzling light show, rock guitars, fantastical choreographed numbers, aerial ...
With sparkly hula-hoops circling their waists, Brett Yang and Eddy Chen started their energetic rendition of the Bach Double Violin Concerto’s first movement. The piece is normally stoic and ...
Two Black violinists continue to take the world by storm with their fusion of classical music and hip hop performed as the duo Black Violin. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shared a profile of Kev ...
A ‘melting pot of influence’: Black Violin draws from music styles ranging from classical to hip-hop
When Kev Marcus, one half of the Grammy-nominated duo Black Violin, reflects on the journey of how they’ve risen, he always cites his ability to be anew. A Black man with the build of an American ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results