Founded by the late trumpeter and educator Melton Mustafa Sr., the festival continues its mission of legacy, education and nurturing the next generation of jazz artists.

Jon Batiste is back with his Montreux Jazz Festival Miami with performances in Miami Beach and The Hangar in Coconut Grove and five days of music.

Mostly Baroque makes its Adrienne Arsht Center debut with a three-concert series joined by the Miami Oratorio Society for one of the performances.

Samara Joy and Catherine Russell deliver Grammy-winning jazz in Miami this February, with Joy at the Arsht Center and Russell at the Faena Jazz Series.

For the second year, the Arsht Center's Gospel Invitational is attracting choirs from throughout Florida.

After 19 seasons at the Arsht Center, The Cleveland Orchestra’s Miami residency continues with Verdi’s “Requiem” and major collaborations.

The South Beach Jazz Festival in Miami Beach marks ten years of music woven into the city with free and ticketed performances

Artistic director Maria Todaro leads Florida Grand Opera into a new era with an in-house orchestra, a reimagined "Die Fledermaus," and a vision aimed at expanding opera’s audience.

For nearly two decades, the Moss Center has been bringing artists beyond Miami’s usual stages, and on Jan. 17 it welcomes Canadian jazz vocalist Laila Biali for her Miami-area debut.

It's a jazz-filled evening in Miami with the New World Symphony on Jan. 10 at the Adrienne Arsht Center in a program highlighting jazz greats George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.

Bayfront Jazz Days shines the spotlight on women in jazz with a lineup that delivers soul and funk, too, on Saturday at the Miami Beach Bandshell.

By highlighting an array of local talent, North Beach Social at the Miami Beach Bandshell positions itself as a venue where the region’s diverse global musical traditions intersect with the local arts scene.

A true story of a legendary World War I Christmas truce becomes the heartbeat of Florida Grand Opera’s “Silent Night" being performed in Miami, then in Fort Lauderdale.

With 2026 marking the centennial of trumpeter Miles Davis’s birth, the Adrienne Arsht Center kicks off its 18th annual Jazz Roots season in true Davis style: innovative, improvisational and unrepeatable.  

'Sounds of Little Haiti' is part music event, part neighborhood get-together at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex.

On a Saturday night each month, opera comes to the people on the terrace of The Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach.

Since 2011, Soundscape Park has broadcast live concerts from inside the New World Center creating a sense of community.

The Opera Atelier and Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida present "Spain, My Love: Opera Meets Ballet" to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.

Winners of the Arsht Center's Gospel Fest invitational along with top headliners perform at the inaugural Gospel Fest Weekend.

Old and new traditions meet at the Miami Beach Bandshell with the pairing of Puerto Rican 15-piece bomba and plena big band El Laberinto del Coco and Miami-born and raised rapper Marti.

The Community Arts Program (CAP) fills the performing arts void of summer in Miami with a variety of musical performances in Coral Gables in a six-part series.

Rhiannon Giddens & the Old-Time Revue brings the kind of foot-stomping, hand-clapping, heart-lifting music that propelled her to prominence nearly two decades ago.

The Bass Museum will present "Mirrors," an immersive opera inspired by the museum's exhibition "Performing Perspectives: A Collection in Dialogue."

Miamibloco shares the art of drumming to build community.

It's been 10 years since Sam Hyken and Jacomo Bairos created Miami's Nu Deco Ensemble.

Poetry combined with hip-hop, classical and pop music has young poets competing for prizes at this year’s Dranoff 2 Piano Fusion “Piano Slam.”

Behind the scenes of Florida Grand Opera’s “Carmen,” opening at the Adrienne Arsht Center on Saturday, April 12, there are intriguing legacies.

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is on a five-city tour of the U.S. in March with the first stop Miami then on to West Palm Beach.

Singer-songwriters Pascuala Ilabaca, from Chile, and La Muchacha (aka Isabel Ramírez Ocampo), from Colombia, bring their styles to Out (Loud) in the Tropics.

South Beach Chamber Ensemble, founded in 1977, has been performing its "Music in Beautiful Spaces" series for 26 years.

Montreux Miami Jazz Festival returns to The Hangar at Regatta Harbour, Coconut Grove, for its second year led by Jon Batiste.

A highlight of this year's Melton Mustafa Jazz Festival is a tribute to Florida-born musician Jaco Pastorius,

New World Symphony's tribute to Black musical artists is a four-concert series that will take place at the New World Center and the Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater.

With music as its staple, the GroundUP Festival also offers workshops, late-night shows and an a capella on the beach singalong.

Pinecrest Gardens celebrates the Queen of Salsa with the Celia Cruz Centennial Celebration featuring a historic exhibition and live concert performances.

The New World Symphony presents an original composition by Miami composer Orlando Jacinto Garcia with original choreography by Miami City Ballet's Ariel Rose.

The Opera Atelier's "The Night and The Moon" is an ambitious double-feature program that brings opera and contemporary dance together on a single stage.

A tribute celebration to Eddie Palmieri at the South Beach Jazz Festival will display the legend's profound impact on music.

South Florida Symphony Orchestra stages Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" in Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Key West. His daughter tells Artburst her take on her father's famous operetta.

Seraphic Fire presents “Jewish Voices,” an a cappella program that opens its season, “Music History 101!”

Florida Grand Opera opens its season with an original re-imagining of Mozart's "The Magic Flute."

Jesús “Aguaje” Ramos brings his ten-piece Buena Vista Orchestra to the Miami Beach Bandshell on Saturday, Oct. 19.

Argentine writer, actor, musician, and singer Luis Pescetti comes to the Miami Beach Bandshell with his entertaining style.

Bassel and The Supernaturals come to the Dennis C. Moss Center in Cutler Bay with a message that hits close to home for the lead singer.

Cuba's Daymé Arocena comes to North Miami to The Citadel to introduce her latest album “Alkemi.”

Close out Miami's classical season with relevant artists and works of styles in nine different venues.

A single community choir, directed by some of the area's finest choral masters, join together to lift the community in praise at GospelFest 2024.

The Historic Lyric Theater welcomes its first jazz series since the Overtown venue reopened in 2014.

Yissy García is ready to show what Women on the Drums is all about at Miami Beach Bandshell.

Trying to get new audiences into classical music concerts is the proverbial problem.

The ensemble will perform Feb. 12-23 in various locations throughout South Florida and Naples.

The GroundUP Music Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary at the Miami Beach Bandshell with Snarky Puppy, Flying Lotus, Rickie Lee Jones, and a global lineup of artists.