Festivities conclude on Sunday, February 22, 2026, with the popular Blues, Brews & BBQ event. Designed as a relaxed daytime ...

Joanne Shaw Taylor is ready to light up the Englert Theatre in Iowa City on Friday night, Aug. 11, 2023, with many shades of the blues. (Kit Wood) Buy Photo Joanne Shaw Taylor is widely considered a ...

In the days before the first Memphis Country Blues Society festival in July 1966, some 400 members of the KKK marched at Overton Park, even burning a cross at the parking lot. That didn’t stop the ...

A Chicago music duo has created a unique sound to celebrate their Arab roots. They're mixing the music of the Middle East with good old Chicago blues. Music can make you feel at home. When Rami ...

When it comes to writing and recording songs for an album, singer-songwriter ZZ Ward, who’ll release her latest LP, Dirty Shine, next week, takes what some might consider an old school approach. Ward ...

Most of the songs on Gail Ceasar’s debut album fit its title, “Guitar Woman Blues.” But alongside such blues standards as “Sweet Home Chicago” is a version of “Rocky Top,” a tune usually performed by ...