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Halfway through the premiere of “Hippest Trip – The Soul Train Musical,” the audience jumped to their feet for a standing ovation, after a riotous dance number to Bobby Brown’s 1988 hit “My Prerogative.” Meanwhile, “Soul Train” host Don ...
Savannah City Market kicks off Small Business Week this weekend with the 3rd Annual “Art & Soul Music Festival”— highlighting all that City Market has to offer! Click the
The West Virginia University Funk and Soul Ensemble brought energy and rhythm to the stage with a free concert at the Mountainlair Gluck Theatre, showcasing a wide-ranging setlist that celebrated decades of iconic music.
Soul music had entered a golden age in the 1970s. Defined by social consciousness, funk grooves, gritty production, and eventually disco, it transformed the future of pop music. And as the grooves hit harder, and the lyrics aimed for awareness and social ...
Southern Soul is in the midst of a revival, thanks to TikTok and other social media platforms. Midlands artists are behind the genre’s biggest hits.
A Youngstown concert featuring R&B artists spanning decades of music is coming to Youngstown in June at Powers Auditorium.
Soul music may have experienced a golden age in the 1970s, but R&B legends, new and old, continued to release groundbreaking tunes in the 1980s. Dance music evolved, disco was far from dead, and the music of underground club scenes entered the mainstream.
Joe McEwen was going to call his book Soul Music Saved My Life. “Because, in a sense, it did,” says the music executive and journalist who grew up in Philadelphia in the 1960s, and got an education listening to legendary Philly DJs like Georgie Woods,
Memphis soul music became the “soundtrack of the modern Civil Rights Movement" as the city served as a bridge between the South and North.
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Sa’mya talks heartbreak, ‘This Ain’t That,’ & central Arkansas music scene | Arkansas Soul Sessions
Arkansas Soul Sessions welcomed Little Rock artist Sa’mya to talk about her latest project, the 501 music scene and live performances.
Singing soul music was never about profit for singer Little Jake Mitchell — it’s about seeing people happy. Even now, at 80 years old and 50 years into his career, his band, Little Jake and the Soul Searchers, continue to use Gainesville’s historic R ...
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Tracing soul music’s roots to today’s R&B
From the gospel-infused melodies of the 1950s to today’s genre-blending R&B innovators, soul music’s heartbeat has never faded. Legendary labels like Motown and Stax laid the foundation, while icons such as Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye turned ...