Reporter
Mirissa Neff is a New York-based broadcast journalist and producer. As a correspondent for PBS's "SOUND TRACKS: Music Without Borders" and its online spinoff "Quick Hits," she tells stories about our world through the music we love.
Mirissa Neff is a New York-based broadcast journalist and producer. As a correspondent for PBS's "SOUND TRACKS: Music Without Borders" and its online spinoff "Quick Hits," she tells stories about our world through the music we love.
While touring Cuba with a New Orleans jazz band, musical connections are made amidst dancing in the streets of Havana.
For the past four years, the World Routes Academy has flown young British musicians all over the globe to mentor with masters of traditional music. 18-year-old singer Fidan Hajiyeva was a perfect candidate for the Academy.
IAM has been around for 25 years and sold millions of records. They're identified with their hometown of Marseille, but what's less known is that the inspiration to start the group began in New York City.
A diverse group of Malian musicians hit the road to shed light on the positive advances that are being made after their country nearly collapsed earlier this year.
Reporter Mirissa Neff went to the 2013 Latin Alternative Music Conference, to ask four bands what the term "Latin Alternative" means to them.
Reporter Mirissa Neff introduces us to Ethiopian-Israeli singer Ester Rada. Rada's latest release is an EP called "Life Happens."
São Paulo-based rapper Kleber Gomes is known throughout Brazil simply as Criolo. He started from humble beginnings, but these days he's making hip-hop that's reaching a whole generation of young Brazilians.
Musician Anthony Joseph grew up on the Caribbean island of Trinidad, where he began writing poetry at the age of 10. But it was only after moving to London at the age of 22 that he started setting his words to music.
The landscapes of the central Australian region and the culture of the Aboriginal people who live there have inspired a new sound.
A documentary tells the story of National Wake, a South African punk band that challenged the country's apartheid divisions in the 1970's. Unfortunately, the group didn't last very long, as reporter Mirissa Neff tells us.
The legendary Coppelia park in Havana, Cuba is an outdoor ice cream parlor where very affordable, government subsidized scoops are dished out.