The eight-piece Lynnwood band Cytrus have a hybrid sound that's as infectious as it is hard to define. Their music is ...

By his own admission, Bonamassa’s musical worldview was singular when he first stepped out onto stages at 11 years of age. He ...

Pre-Television, Lloyd rubbed shoulders with many guitar stars, and had a rather memorable encounter with John Lee Hooker ...

Raoul Jerome was honored by the University of Southern Mississippi for founding its Jazz Studies Program. Jerome built the university's jazz program from scratch, a process compared to launching a ...

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 ...

Tanita Tikaram, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Bill Frisell Trio and Mulatu Astatke, the father of Ethiopian jazz, are among the exciting gigs at this year’ s festival. From 14–23 November 2025, London will ...

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It was a big day for the blues at the Monterey Jazz Festival on Saturday. Mr. Sipp, the Mississippi blues belter who won the The B.B. King Entertainer of the Year trophy at the 2025 Blues Music Awards ...

B.B. King, the King of the Blues, would have turned 100 on Sept. 16. Most Americans know his name, his primacy among blues legends, and the singular identity of his beloved hollow-body Gibson guitar ...

AKRON, Ohio – The 2025 Rubber City Jazz and Blues Festival returns to various downtown Akron venues Sept. 4-6. It’s the 10th year for the festival, which features local, regional and national jazz ...

Tickets for the Maui Jazz & Blues Festival are on sale now. The festival will be hosted by the Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua Oct. 20-26, bringing together Grammy Award-winning artists for a magnet for ...

Launched in 2014, PhotoSparks is a weekly feature from YourStory, with photographs that celebrate the spirit of creativity and innovation. In the earlier 885 posts, we featured an art festival, ...