The 2026 Blast Furnace Blues music festival brought the community together Friday to listen to blues artists such as the BC ...

For the better part of two decades, Crooked River Arts Council has been embracing the summer heat with its popular Kent Blues ...

Blues music and romance share an intimate relationship that has resonated through generations, making the genre the ultimate soundtrack for love’s complicated journey. From smoky nightclubs to quiet ...

One of the biggest misconceptions about blues music is that the genre is all about doom and gloom. Naturally, many blues songs feature lyrics about being down in the dumps, love lost, and heartbreak.

Before he arrived at the Old Joliet Prison south of Chicago, now the Joliet Area Historical Museum, Erik Devereux made sure his ensemble was in appropriate Blues Brothers order. The basics weren’t a ...

Nashville's jazz and blues scene is alive and well. Music City is home to many intimate clubs, bars and live music venues ...

Long Beach Blues Society founder Bill Grisolia believes the music itself is the lifeline. “Exposure is key; once you hear it ...

The top concerts taking place in the Sarasota area the week of July 3-9.

Though fellow English rock bands the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Herman’s Hermits and many others were dominating the music scene in England and across the pond in America in the 1960s, another group ...

The blues is ripe with legends and myths, not least the oft-touted claim that W.C. Handy was the father of the blues. But as Darryl. W. Bullock tells it, there is an important tract of blues history ...