James Brown was an iconic American musician who is recognized as one of the most influential figures in rhythm and blues, soul, funk and protest civil rights music. Born and raised in Augusta, Georgia ...

In the 1970s, KC & the Sunshine Band and George McCrae recorded in Miami, but the bustling hit factory that launched them produced more than disco stars—it also gave the world Latimore, the sensuous ...

UPDATE as of Fri 2/24/2023, 2 PM: This concert has been canceled. Cicero Blake’s career spans the trajectory of modern soul music from doo-wop to contemporary southern soul-blues. Blake was born in ...

Newly opened Melrose District hangout Smith’s on 7th is a hip drinkery and looks every bit the part. The interior of the urbane bar and lounge along Seventh Avenue just south of Camelback Road is ...

The renowned bluesman, who died in 2015, spoke to Fresh Air in 1996 about growing up as the son of a sharecropper — and leaving the plantation as a young man to pursue a career in music. This is FRESH ...

Dozens of big-name African American entertainers sang for joy when I started my car. It was the "Hallelujah" chorus from "Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration," a 1992 performance of the "Messiah" ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The quintet, comprised of John Popper (vocals, harmonica), Chan Kinchla (guitar), ...

The phone rings exactly at three o’clock. On the other end of the line is energetic, talkative and informative Blues Traveler guitarist Chan Kinchla calling from ...

Saturday saw the return of a long running, Jefferson County musical tradition. The family-style Pine Bluff/Altheimer Blues Festival was begun in the late 1980s by local legend Sam Cook, a well-known ...

You’ve already seen Brian Banash’s artwork. It’s so ingrained in West Coast culture, we can bet money on it. His cartoon-like inspired art spanning 40 years even has a name – “Banash style” – marked ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - You can bet there will be a lot of soul food this weekend in Baton Rouge. The 5th Annual Baton Rouge Soul Food Festival is returning to the Capital City. You can bet there ...