The Blues Foundation has named Judith Black its new president and CEO, effective January 1, 2022. Black is co-founder and previously served as President of the Tarik Black Foundation, which has a ...

2022 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Actor in a Play Ruben Santiago-Hudson 2022 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Music in a Play Bill Sims Jr. 2022 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Revival of a Play ...

Last week blues singer Shemekia Copeland netted her fourth Grammy nomination, earning a nod in the Best Contemporary Blues Album category, for her latest, "Uncivil War." It was a happy note to what ...

Blues survives, always, in Chicago. Even after the darkest phases of the COVID-19 pandemic; clubs erected parking lot stages; reduced capacity; pivoted to virtual concerts; and raised funds through ...

When Carl “Buffalo” Nichols was 10 years old, he decided to expand his musical tastes beyond the tracks that dominated the radio scene in his hometown of Milwaukee, Wis. “I found different blues CDs,” ...

“Sittin’ here watching matchbox hole in my clothes,” Ringo sang as the lead vocalist on “Matchbox,” one of the Beatles’ early Top 20 hits on Billboard. The British Invasion In 1964, the Beatles took ...

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Syracuse, N.Y. — The New York State Blues Festival is hoping to continue to grow into its new location when it returns in 2022. The 30th annual blues fest comes back to Chevy Court at the New York ...

Walking to a media room at the Blues’ practice facility this week to discuss the difficulty and humility of his 2021-22 season, goaltender Jordan Binnington spotted a stray puck on the rubber floor.

Blues singer Bessie Smith’s “Backwater Blues” is often connected to the well-known Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which devastated predominantly Black communities in Arkansas, Mississippi and ...

The St. Louis Blues returned to the ice for the start of their 10-day training camp on Monday, Jan. 4, 2020 at the Centene Community Ice Center in Maryland Heights. The team was split into two ...