Sudan Archives: ‘In so many places in the world the violin brings the party’ | Pop and rock

Sudan Archives performing at Coachella in 2018

Brittney Parks is on a mission “to show the Blackness of the violin”, she says. As a child in Ohio, she learned to play the instrument by ear. She moved to Los Angeles in her […]

Violin used for Wizard of Oz’s Over the Rainbow expected to reach $20m at auction | Music

Stradivarius violin

A Stradivarius violin “of outstanding power and beauty” used to play Over the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz is expected to break records when it is put up for auction next week. The 308-year-old […]