Listen to Slick Ballinger’s “Talkin’ ‘Bout Jesus” from his debut album Mississippi Soul. If you cannot see the music player below, click here to download the free Flash Player. Music and a sermon ...

Concert of Colors: The Gospel Meets the Blues with Nikki D, Robert Jones Sr. and Thornetta Davis. Experience the powerful fusion of Gospel Blues at Concert of Colors: The Gospel Meets the Blues.

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Earl Thomas was just about on top of the world — literally — when he decided to retire from music after his November 2019 performance at the Dark Season Blues Festival in Svalbard, Norway, just 500 ...

On a recent Monday night at an open-mike at The Funhouse, the South Side Bethlehem alternative-music palace, a crowd of young headbangers was sitting around passing the time when the first act came on ...

The NCPA Soulful Blues Festival is back for its third edition and promises to bring in the crowds to watch three great performers. The three day all American lineup features Detroit’s ‘Queen of the ...

A.R. Rahman is a magician in control of his team on the stage. A Zen-like calmness seems to envelop him as he takes to the keyboard, anchoring the performance of his singers. When we catch up with him ...

Memphis-born, Mississippi-based spiritual blues scion Rev. John Wilkins has died. The son of 1920s' blues icon Robert Wilkins, the younger Wilkins had been enjoying a late-in-life career resurgence, ...