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Grammy Award-winning artist Ashanti will perform at halftime of Portland Fire’s home opener at the Moda Center on Saturday, ...

One of Snow Hill’s native daughters is Marlanna Evans — known as Rapsody — a Grammy-award winning artist whose socially ...

The university has named a black box space in its new Fries Arts Building for Lin-Manuel Miranda, a 2002 graduate who staged ...

With more than 30 performances over three days, there were plenty of memorable sets at RiverBeat in Memphis. Here are some of ...

While we wait for the roster for Austin's biggest music festival to drop, here's a look back at the event that reshaped the ...