We leave you with a song by the Cuban saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera who is to perform at this event.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

The movie's theme song, "The Weary Kind" by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett, is nominated for an Academy Award.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

The group My Morning Jacket performs a John Prine song from his nineteen ninety-one Grammy-winning album, "The Missing Years."

VOA: special.2010.09.10

In the nineteen sixties, a major black civil rights group declared it the national song of black people in America.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

Jordan had recorded a song called "Caldonia" and other popular songs in the late nineteen forties and nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

She borrowed sound recordings from a musical project by the singer David Byrne to make one song on her new album.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

"Auld Lang Syne," by the eighteenth century Scottish poet Robert Burns, is a song about friends and remembering times long ago.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

Like many of U2's songs, it is an expressive love song with a melody that is hard to forget.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

has many traditional Christmas songs. The video for the song "Must Be Santa" has been very popular on the Internet.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

Years later,Woody described what singing meant to him: "When you sing a song, it reaches out and enters people's ears.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

In the song,a man named Charlie has to ride forever because he does not have enough money to leave the train.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

That is all I know." Here is Billie Holiday singing a popular song of the Nineteen thirties, "More Than You Know."

VOA: special.2010.02.28

A Beatles song was almost always at the top of the charts until the group's next hit replaced it.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

Pete Seeger could be called the King of the Protest Song, in the words of folk musician Tony Trischka.

VOA: special.2009.07.27