Blues legend Bessie Smith’s tombstone (ironically, purchased by singer Janis Joplin just before her own death) declares, “The greatest blues singer in the world will never stop singing.” Smith may be ...

“Women of the blues are like none other – we don’t just come on stage and sing. B.B. played Lucille, but I shake a mean hip,” said blues performer Shirley King. She wasn’t taking shots at the late ...

Jocelyn Reyome, a former Attleboro resident, recently took the top prize in the solo/duo category at the 2025 International Blues Challenge in Memphis. The annual event attracts hundreds of blues ...

Singing the blues does not require a birthright, as jazz singer Ann Hampton Callaway proved Friday night. Blues comes from deep within, and roaring beneath her surface is the soul of a blues belter ...

3 Ladies Sing the Blues features powerhouse vocalists Terrie Odabi, Tia Carroll, and Lady Bianca, coming together for an electrifying night of music on October 18, 2024. Each artist brings her unique ...

At the press conference announcing Shemekia Copeland's booking at this year's Saturday in the Park, festival co-founder David Bernstein said someday this lady will hold the title "Queen of the Blues." ...

It started out as an ordinary winter day at the Glenner Center in Hillcrest, where people with dementia come for adult day care. But then four women showed up in 1960s bouffant wigs and started ...

“Singing the blues” may seem to be a weird title as we travel through the holiday season and approach the end of another semester. We might think it should be a time of rejoicing. Yet if we are honest ...

Things just got a whole lot cooler around here. At two Dallas theaters, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday are back and ready to swing. Giving remarkably convincing performances as the late, great ...

Carnival Cruise Lines--Triumph will depart New Orleans, LA on 12/6--11/2010 with Jomar Records recording artist Pat Hunter “National Woman in Blues, Vol 1" on board as one of the three featured female ...

Disc jockeys at weddings are as tired as off-color jokes by the best man. Still, for every spin of the "Chicken Dance" or "Hot, Hot, Hot," they almost redeem themselves with Etta James' "At Last." The ...