Then in the early 2000s there was a nostalgia-filled revival of the instrument.

New novel captures a legendary bluesman at an early midlife crossroads, well before the myth — that he sold his soul to the ...

Closer to home, Creole musicians such as Canray Fontenot are known to have started out on handmade cigar box fiddles, ...

The annual Bluesberry Music + Art Festival will take place in Covington's riverside Bogue Falaya Park on Oct. 5 with a ...

Blues contestants were competing for the chance to play in Memphis, Tennessee at the International Blues Challenge.

That Overdrive Special you bought on Reverb is going to pay for itself once you take this lesson in the former child prodigy ...

Reminders that Chicago is a city built on music are everywhere, whether it’s Slate Street’s towering mural of ...

Saxophonist, composer and music educator Leland Baker studied jazz in New Orleans and New York before coming back home to ...

The deadline for 2025 Jazz Fest Applications in approaching! The 2025 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, presented by ...

Take Louisiana-born Buddy Guy ... Tillmon, it seems, is one of Chicago’s busiest blues musicians. “I arrived in Chicago in ’62 and I’ve been workin’ here ever since,” he tells me.

September 14, 2024, at Columbia Park in Shreveport's Historic Highland neighborhood. The festival runs from 10:30 a.m. to ...

There’s a whole lot going on this weekend across Southeast Louisiana. The Gretna Fest runs all weekend on the Westbank.