Ray Charles lived in South Dallas in the mid-1950s while assembling his crack Atlantic Records band, featuring Lincoln High ...
For the Thanksgiving Eve “Tribute to Art Neville and Eddie Bo” at Tipitina's, he will join Cyril Neville, Ivan Neville, Jon ...
The Watson Family Singers were some of the first gospel performers on the radio, thanks to their All Nations Pentecostal ...
Rob Bowman’s new book, “Land of a Thousand Sessions," provides definitive history of how Muscle Shoals, Alabama, became a ...
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Today in Music History for Dec. 11: In 1882, Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta "Iolanthe" was performed at the Bijou Theater in Boston, the first U.S. playhouse to be lighted exclusively by electricity.
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In 2021, Canadian singer-songwriter The Weeknd, along with Americans Olivia Rodrigo and H.E.R., all won Apple Music Awards. The Weeknd was named global artist of the year, a step up from the category ...
On November 12, 1950, Barbara Fairchild was born in Knobel, Arkansas. Creating music since she was a teenager, Fairchild released her first album, Someone Special, in 1970. Fairchild began singing ...
What better way to bid farewell to a long, fruitful relationship than with a mutual gift? That is the decision John Goldsby and the extraordinary WDR Big Band made after 30 years of intense ...
The University of Maine at Orono isn’t just the state’s flagship college—it’s also hosted some unforgettable rock shows.