The musical options in New Orleans for the last week of June include a blues legend and the pairing of a pianist and a ...

Classically trained pianist Lilli Lewis boasts an operatic voice and a knack for writing deeply affecting songs that draw on ...

No trip to New Orleans would be complete without catching a live show (or several) at one of the city's historic music venues ...

Learn a bluesy boogie shuffle piano groove in the New Orleans style. In this lesson, I use "Sweet Home Chicago" to break down a rolling left-hand pattern and Dr. John-inspired feel.

GALAX – Sierra Green & the Giants will perform at 7 p.m., Saturday, June 21, at the Blue Ridge Music Center’s amphitheater at ...

In his new book The Blues, musician Chris Thomas King asserts that the “blues was invented in the 1890s by Black Creoles in New Orleans.”That’s an extraordinary claim, although not entirely ...

GRAMMY ® Award-Winning NEW ORLEANS JAZZ ORCHESTRA, led by Artistic Director & GRAMMY ® Award-Winning Drummer ADONIS ROSE, return for a Special Performance at Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club with 3x ...

New Orleans blues legend Walter "Wolfman" Washington died last year before his final album, "Feel So At Home," came out. NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with his producer, Ben Ellman.

Samantha Fish, a blues guitarist originally from Kansas City, poses in front of a mural of her on Frenchman Street in New Orleans on Thursday, Jan. 30.

A beloved Louisiana blues singer has died at age 76. Luther Kent, a New Orleans native, had just celebrated a birthday in June, according to a Facebook post by the Louisiana Jukebox Cafe.

Wendell Pierce, actor “West End Blues” by Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five “West End Blues” embodies the complexity of this music — which is what New Orleans is all about.