Morgan Freeman and Eric Meier created the "Symphonic Blues Experience" to celebrate blues music with an orchestra. The show will take place on September 26 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center with the ...

Rooted in the Mississippi Delta, the blues sprang from spiritual music and field hollers, spinning a cultural thread that followed the Great Black Migration from South to North. Sheer joy of ...

INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original song called “Delta Sun,” dedicated to life in a hot and challenging ...

The Blues Foundation‘s 46th Annual Blues Music Awards were held at Renasant Convention Center on Thursday, May 8th, and once again a regional wunderkind, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram of Clarksdale (who ...

Muddy Waters once sang: "the blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll." But it's more than rock… the blues makes a strong case for itself as the most influential sound in American music ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — A longtime music festival is returning to Davenport this September. The Mississippi Valley Blues Society's Blues Fest will take place Sept. 19 and Sept. 20. This year's event is a ...

Binghamton's annual celebration of blues music, Blues on the Bridge, will return for its 23rd year on Sept. 13. The event is held annually on Binghamton's South Washington Street Bridge, where vendors ...

The blues is ripe with legends and myths, not least the oft-touted claim that W.C. Handy was the father of the blues. But as Darryl. W. Bullock tells it, there is an important tract of blues history ...

For those who haven't seen Sinners, the film may seem like your basic historical horror movie, but in reality, it uses time period, fantasy, and music to convey a much deeper story. Released in April ...