Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images This week, the legendary singer and civil rights figure Mavis Staples is turning 85 and there's no sign of her slowing down: She released a new song, "Worthy," and a ...

After more than seven decades onstage, the gospel and soul great decided last year that it was time to retire. Then she realized she still had work to do. By Grayson Haver Currin Reporting from ...

Hey Day Happy Hour: 4-6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 6-7, at Hey Nonny, 10 S. Vail Ave., Arlington Heights. Music by Jon Allegretto on Friday and Ian Leith on ...

Mavis Staples remembers. In her new children’s book, Bridges Instead of Walls: The Story of Mavis Staples, she reaches back to when her father determined the type of music that was permissible to play ...

The new record, which was announced Tuesday (March 15), was recorded in Woodstock, New York at Levon Helm Studios in the summer of 2011. The collaboration marks one of Helm’s final recordings before ...

It was a cool night for a hot start to the 45th Montreal International Jazz Festival as Chicago soul legend Mavis Staples showed tens of thousands of music fans how it’s done in the opening night free ...