Wheeler co-founded the Park Rapids Area Community Band and directed the Park Rapids Classic Chorale for a time.

With “traditional” blues as their foundation, some artists and educators working to introduce the music to the next generation see plenty of room to improvise.

In this lesson, we reimagine folk, jazz, blues and Celtic music for a blues roadmap that takes the road less traveled ...

Having spent more than six months travelling the length and breadth of India, on three separate trips, it remains one of my favourite countries in the world. I’ve explored this endlessly compelling ...

Award-winning South African blues-rock guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Ross Harding has announced additional UK tour dates for 2026 as part of The Blood & The Blues tour. The expanded schedule ...

BRITS have revealed their ultimate tips to beat the winter blues, from nabbing a bargain to taking themselves for a solo date. A poll of 2,000 adults found 58 per cent make a conscious effort to lift ...

Blues guitarist and soulful songsmith Joanne Shaw Taylor started her journey in guitar as a teenager in Britain – quickly moving on from classical guitar roots to her lifelong love of blues. Here she ...

Steve Cropper, the US guitarist whose work as an instrumentalist, producer and songwriter at Stax Records left an indelible impression on Memphis soul music, has died at the age of 84. His son Cameron ...

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What is R&B, where’d it come from and where’d it go? An array of five-star entertainers will give a musical answer to these questions when the Manship Theatre presents the "Rhythm and Blues Revue" at ...