CLEVELAND — Cleveland's Waterloo Arts District will come alive with the sounds of blues music next weekend as the Women in Blues Music Festival takes over The Treelawn music hall for four days of ...

The hangings parted and a great brown woman emerged—she was the size of Fay Templeton in her Weber & Fields days, and she was even garbed similarly, in a rose satin dress, spangled ...

Bay Area playwright, vocalist and educator Pamela Rose is thrilled to be bringing her acclaimed musical "Blues Is a Woman" to San Francisco's Peninsula for the first time. About a decade ago, she had ...

The singer/songwriter is one of the 2024 Kennedy Center honorees. In 1996, Raitt spoke to Fresh Air about about the musicians that inspired her, including Mississippi Fred McDowell. This is FRESH AIR.

One of the biggest misconceptions about blues music is that the genre is all about doom and gloom. Naturally, many blues songs feature lyrics about being down in the dumps, love lost, and heartbreak.