This band's mix of jazz,world music, folk and rock is a perfect fit for the festival.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

In nineteen forty-eight, Coltrane joined trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie's band.

VOA: special.2010.11.07

John Lewis played in the rhythm section of Gillespie's band.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

The next year, Ella started singing with Chick Webb's band.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

He worked in the studio with award-winning songwriter and producer Carson Chamberlain, a former member of the late Keith Whitley's band.

VOA: standard.2010.04.09

They played alongside Muddy Waters for 10 years, before launching The Legendary Blues Band with three other members of Muddy's backup group.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

The genre is believed to owe its name to Monroe's 1930s band, The Blue Grass Boys.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

This year, the 87-year-old guitar wizard performed six times, including a bluegrass set, a reunion with Merle's band Frosty Morn, and a rockabilly set affectionately known as "Docabilly."

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

The band's music is considered so influential that some critics say punk rock would not exist without the Stooges.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

The band's lead singer Erika Lewis moved to New Orleans from New York state because of her love of music.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

They are joined in the band by Butler's brother William, Richard Reed Parry,Tim Kingsbury, Sarah Neufeld and Jeremy Gara.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

It is the band's seventh studio album and the first without LeRoi Moore whom they called "GrooGrux King."

VOA: special.2009.08.28

The four band members continued to work together after leaving Dizzy's group in the late nineteen forties.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

At first,the show traveled across North America and was meant to be the band's final tour.

VOA: special.2009.06.08

"The music here is more complicated and harder, but I think it's partly because it's also with woodwinds and brass, basically with a band.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

Crowds of girls waited for the band's arrival at an airport in New York City.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

After the war,Lewis moved to New York City and played in Dizzy Gillespie's big band.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

And "Spin" says the album's title track is the band's best song to date.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

Clarence Clemons played saxophone in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band for forty years.

VOA: special.2011.06.24

This year's performers include Elvis Costello,David Byrne and the Yonder Mountain String Band.

VOA: special.2009.06.08

These are some of the other recordings added to the National Recording Registry: A nineteen twenty-three recording of "Canal Street Blues" by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

One reviewer compared it to the Beatles album, "Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."

VOA: special.2010.11.26

The band's two members, Kristian Bush and Jennifer Nettles, perform some traditional songs.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

A band met the train and marched with the group to McKinley's home.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

The group's members called themselves "the world's greatest rock and roll band."

VOA: special.2009.06.21

Martin's father,Steve Masakowski, is a member of our next band, Astral Project.

VOA: special.2010.01.22