The Church of Blues, a free community music program, is proud to announce Rising Blue: An Evening Showcase of Women Musicians ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -The Treelawn in Cleveland’s Waterloo Arts District is celebrating Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day this weekend with a four-day music and arts festival celebrating ...

More than 10 years ago, Lynn Orman Weiss, a veteran music publicist and journalist with 30 years of experience, had an idea to produce a concert called Chicago Blues Mamas for Obama. As Orman Weis ...

Long before her six Grammy nominations and her signature 1973 hit “Midnight at the Oasis,” a young Maria Muldaur was befriended by a pioneering blues singer-songwriter named Victoria Spivey. A ...

CHICAGO — Koko Taylor, a sharecropper’s daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet “Queen of the Blues,” has died after complications from surgery. She was 80. Taylor ...

Rooted in the Mississippi Delta, the blues sprang from spiritual music and field hollers, spinning a cultural thread that followed the Great Black Migration from South to North.

This weekend, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra puts on a bit of Pride at the Meyerson. Not only will lesbian conductor Marin Alsop lead the orchestra in a performance of Strauss’ “Don Juan” and Brahms’ ...