The festival is named for Scenic Highway 30A in Florida’s Walton County, where the event takes place. This year’s extravaganza will feature more than 125 songwriters, and 300-plus performances by ...

Now in its seventh decade, Mavis Staples' career has taken her through chart-topping hits with the gospel-soul family band The Staple Singers, performances for Martin Luther King Jr., enshrinement in ...

86-year-old legend Mavis Staples has rounded up a star-studded cast of collaborators for her new album, Sad and Beautiful World, arriving Nov. 7 from Anti-. The Brad Cook-produced project is led by ...

The blues will be celebrated in a big way this summer if the 2025 Chicago Blues Festival lineup announced Wednesday morning by the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, is any ...

Calling all blues aficionados and music lovers! Mark your calendars because the Austin Blues Festival is returning to Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park on April 26 and 27. There are a variety of ...

The Grammy-winning singer and civil rights activist Mavis Staples will headline the final night of this summer’s Blues Fest, according to an announcement Wednesday by the Chicago Department of ...

Gospel and soul legend Mavis Staples will headline a free concert as part of a new Jazzy Sundays in the Parks lineup that brings live music to Emancipation Park, Discovery Green and Buffalo Bayou Park ...

Next month, Mavis Staples will turn 85. The legendary singer already celebrated in April with a concert featuring Chris Stapleton, Grace Potter, Hozier, and more; today, she’s releasing the new Prince ...

This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene. Pop music has reached a cross-generational ...

Free Press Summer Fest left behind a mixed bag of memories over its nine years, but at least one is a true gem: a YouTube clip of Mavis Staples singing “The Weight” in June 2013. Even for Houston, the ...

Mavis Staples has announced a new album. Produced by Brad Cook, Sad and Beautiful World combines original material with covers of songs by Tom Waits, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Frank Ocean, ...

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