Here’s hoping you’ve got your dancing shoes all shined up and ready to go, because the back half of April is a stacked one ...

The 2026 Chicago Blues Festival returns June 4-7 with free performances around the city. See the full lineup, schedule and ...

The Courant’s arts picks for April 12-18 also includes a Hartford Chorale concert, a Lampert and Barsha theater cabaret, a ...

This week's Press Run has news about the upcoming Cleveland Heights state-of-the-city address; a soulful concert to be ...

His repertoire of instruments he plays includes the diddley bow, which earned him a Blues Music Award nomination for ...

Lemuria Books is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an all-day party on Saturday, April 11. The event will be held at ...

The Hyde Park Community Players presents Diana Son’s romantic drama about two women whose budding relationship in 1990s New ...

Musicians who donated their time to play the show include members of the local band 11 South Unplugged, who are also members ...

The oldest juke joint in Mississippi, and perhaps the whole of the U.S., is still keeping the blues alive 78 years after ...

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What would the movie “Jaws” have been without the music? How about “Grease,” “Dirty Dancing” or any of Quentin Tarantino’s pictures? The horror movie “Sinners,” written and directed by Ryan Coogler, ...

Miles Caton was prepping for his first-ever movie role when the film’s director Ryan Coogler sent him a playlist of essential blues music. “It had the greats on there — Charley Patton, Buddy Guy, B.B.