The hangings parted and a great brown woman emerged—she was the size of Fay Templeton in her Weber & Fields days, and she was even garbed similarly, in a rose satin dress, spangled ...

ST. LOUIS - In celebration of the enduring spirit and impact of blues music - the eponymous genre that gave this hockey team its name back in 1967 - the St. Louis Blues today debuted the opening notes ...

INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original song called “Delta Sun,” dedicated to life in a hot and challenging ...

The Delta stretches across northwestern Mississippi like a big fallen leaf, tucked between two rivers. It spans 220 miles north to south and, at its widest, 87 miles east to west. How can so many ...

New to the blues? Here’s what you need to know to get you started. Blues music is a genre that grew out of the American dream. Its roots were firmly planted in the New World before it migrated to ...

Not a lot of groups employ spoons as a musical instrument, but Dawn Lepere of LeFever has quite a knack for playing them. “Dawn’s dad is a great spoons player, and he would break them out at a ...

DURAND — Dan Callan reminisced about the origins of Blues on the Chippewa as the event prepares for its 18th anniversary. Callan, a member of the Bear Creek Band, is a board member of both Blues on ...

Rock 'n' roll pioneer Dion, guitar great Robert Cray, roots music star Rhiannon Giddens and R&B ace Bobby Rush are among the wide array of artists nominated for the 2021 Blues Music Awards. Presented ...

Nominees for the blues world’s top honors have been announced. Presented by the Memphis-based Blues Foundation, the Blues Music Awards “honor the past year’s exceptional achievements in blues music ...

Bay Area playwright, vocalist and educator Pamela Rose is thrilled to be bringing her acclaimed musical "Blues Is a Woman" to San Francisco's Peninsula for the first time. About a decade ago, she had ...