It's a music weekend with Remedy Tree at the Req Room, Big Al at House of Music and a Sounds of Downtown Music Crawl.

Craft Recordings and Bluesville Records have teamed up with Acoustic Sounds to reissue two landmark blues titles, each ...

Robert Mugge's new film "Deep Roots: The Art and Music of Bill Steber and Friends" premieres in Memphis during Blues Music Awards week. The free premiere takes place May 7 at Blues City Cafe on ...

You’re bound to be playing banjo ... to string band music from North Carolina. Then there’s my longtime bass player, Jason Sypher, who’s lived in North Carolina and New Orleans, and then ...

Director Ryan Coogler and composer Ludwig Göransson met in film school at USC. Their latest collaboration, an explosive mix of blues and horror, is a breakthrough.

Dive into 6 vibrant New Orleans music festivals in 2025, ... showcasing local acts playing everything from brass band anthems to Cajun tunes. ... Crescent City Blues & BBQ Fest Delivers Soul.

The 2025 Danny Barker Guitar and Banjo Fest runs March 18-23, and includes tributes and mentoring events throughout the week, as well as a three-day mini-festival Friday through Sunday at the New ...

Even Cajun accordionist Bruce Daigrepont has participated in the New Orleans bluegrass scene: As a fifteen-year-old, he played a five-string banjo with Luke Thompson and the Green Valley Cut-Ups ...

Turner is brother to the iconic blues guitarist Freddie King, whom he played with for years until King’s untimely death in December 1976. After a lengthy hiatus, Turner resumed playing music again, ...

If the name or music sounds familiar, it may be thanks to vintage jazz enthusiast Woody Allen, who played with this long-established group for years at the Carlyle Hotel on Mondays and had them ...

Traditional New Orleans jazz “has become like an international language among this small group of fans and musicians that play the music and keep it going,” White said. “In that sense, I ...

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 ...