广东民间音乐团于一九五八年与广州曲艺联谊会一、二演出队合编成立广东音乐曲艺团。
广东音乐曲艺团是一专门从事广东音乐和广东曲艺表演的专业文艺团体。曾拥有刘天一、方汉、朱海、梁秋等一批知名的广东音乐演奏家和熊飞影、源妙生、白燕仔、何丽芳、黄少梅、谭佩仪、李丹红、杨达、黄俊英等一批曲艺演唱家、相声表演艺术家。继后，汤凯旋、陈瑞麟、李燕熙、吴国平、何克宁、黄鼎世、刘国强等中青年演奏家及陈玲玉、梁玉嵘、何萍、李敏华等青年曲艺演唱家相继脱颖而出。剧团拥有雄厚的创作力量，创作、撰写、编配、整理了一大批优秀的广东音乐和广东曲艺作品，广为流传，备受讚赏。
广东音乐曲艺团在历届全国及省、市各项音乐、曲艺比赛和调演中，获得不少荣誉和奖项。其中《雏凤新声颂伟人》荣获文化部第七届文华节目奖和文华表演奖；琵琶弹唱《悲歌广陵散》和扬琴、古筝弹唱《天涯璧合庆月圆》获第二届中国曲艺节牡丹奖、广东省宣传文化精品奖及首届广州文艺奖特等奖；曲艺节目《精忠谱》、《二泉映月》、《乡恋》、《牧马人》、《我是红娘》、《故乡情》等获全国曲艺节调演一等奖；在第三届全国民族管弦乐评奖中，高胡独奏曲《梦中月》获二等奖，扬琴独奏曲《云山春色》获优秀作品奖。在近年举办的三届广东省广东音乐新作品创作大赛中，该团创作的多首新曲分别获得一、二、三等奖。
该团成立以来，频繁赴香港演出，还先后访问过前苏联、罗马尼亚、波兰、捷克、日本、朝鲜、缅甸、美国、加拿大、英国、新加坡、澳大利亚等国家，为广东音乐和曲艺走上国际舞台作出了积极贡献。
Guangdong Folk Music Acrobatics Group This group was actually a combined group of a few similar ones and was founded in 1958. It is a professional group specialised in performing Cantonese opera and music arts. Most of the famous Cantonese musicians and vocal singers were trained and brought up in this group, such as Liu Tian-yi, Fang Han, Zhu Hai, Liang Qiu, Xiong Fei- ying, Bai yan-zai, Tan Pei-yi, Li Dan-hong, Huang Jun-ying etc. As to the younger generation, there were Tang Hai-suan, Chen Rui-lin, Wu Guo-ping, He Ke-ning, Huang Ding-shi, Chen Ling-yu, Liang Yu-yong, He Ping, Li Min-hua etc etc. The group has also strong facilities in composing and rearranging Cantonese music and opera works. Most of their works are very popular allover. They had won numerous awards in competitions in China. By means of their visit to many countries abroad, they had done a great contribution in promoting the Cantonese music and opera art.