The festival organizers' main goal is to introduce youth to artists performing different styles of music at concerts, workshops.

The Bloomington Blues and Boogie Woogie Piano Festival will return for its seventh year this Sunday, including 10 artists ...

Erwin Helfer, a Chicago boogie woogie innovator and master, has been forging his own piano music legacy. Born in 1936, Erwin has been playing and performing for over forty years. The sounds and ...

Jon Batiste’s 2023 album “World Music Radio” was a pop album colored with global influences. It was big music meant to reach a big audience. He takes a very different approach on his forthcoming album ...

Defining blues music is like trying to describe a color. The frustration is complete until you realize that the music isn`t so much a thing as it is a depth, a feel, a lifestyle. It`s woes of the soul ...

Willie Lee Perryman, who performed during his career as "Piano Red" and as "Dr. Feelgood," was a self-taught pianist who played in the barrelhouse blues style. (The term barrelhouse was used to ...

John Lodge has vivid memories of the day he and his fellow Moody Blues experienced the majesty of "Days of Future Passed," a 1967 concept album widely held to be their masterpiece, in full. The ...

Muddy Waters was looking for a new piano player when chain-smoking journeyman Pinetop Perkins showed off his aggressive keyboarding during a jam session. “He liked what he heard. The rest is history,” ...

CHICAGO — Chicago blues piano player Piano C. Red, who performed with Muddy Waters, B.B King, Fats Domino and Buddy Guy before being paralyzed in 2006, has died. Red's son, James Britton, confirmed ...