Unity the Band, led by founder and lead singer Pita "Kai" Kotobalavu, performs during a picture-perfect summer evening in June at Lil Jamaica. The reggae group is the house band at the bar's beer ...

It didn’t matter where Derron Wilson and Janel Johnson-Wilson traveled to hear Unity the Band — Florida, Door County, Appleton — or how many people were there, frontman Pita Kotobalavu always gave ...

It’s almost February, which, for most people, means pink and red hearts for Valentine’s Day. But there’s more to February than that — February is Black History Month. To commemorate the occasion, ...

Pita “Kai” Kotobalavu may live half the year in Wisconsin and the other half in his native Fiji but he also spends plenty of time touring. The original roots reggae group Unity The Band, which he ...

Thursday’s blazing quartet performance by Pat Metheny’s Unity Band reset the limits for what you think four musicians can do. By incorporating elements of his fantastical orchestrion into the latter ...

Is unity possible? This simple question launched the Brooklyn-based band The Bergamot on a quest to all 50 States to unite people with music, community, and collaboration. State of the Unity is a ...

Those who attended March For Our Lives in Syracuse on Saturday may have heard, after the final speaker left the stage, music more traditionally associated with a river boat than a protest. The Unity ...

For the first time since his 1980 release 80/81, guitarist Pat Metheny has recorded with a band that features tenor saxophone. Unity Band, due from Nonesuch on June 12, 2012, introduces a new Metheny ...

MILWAUKEE - Fireworks and cookouts are great. But there is more to Independence Day. One group in Milwaukee's Humboldt Park are using it to be an "instrument" for unity. "Music really connects us all, ...