CLEVELAND, Ohio -The Treelawn in Cleveland’s Waterloo Arts District is celebrating Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day this weekend with a four-day music and arts festival celebrating ...

The United States may be the birthplace of the blues, but Philadelphia-born blues singer Davina Robinson found them somewhere far, far away from the U.S., in Japan. Robinson launched her music career ...

Long before her six Grammy nominations and her signature 1973 hit “Midnight at the Oasis,” a young Maria Muldaur was befriended by a pioneering blues singer-songwriter named Victoria Spivey. A ...

Chicago (AP) -- Koko Taylor, a sharecropper's daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet "Queen of the Blues," has died after complications from surgery. She was 80.

If you close your eyes, you could easily count about a billion incredible female singers off the top of your head. From Adele to Whitney Houston to Lady Gaga to Aretha Franklin to Blondie to more and ...

Blues legend Bessie Smith’s tombstone (ironically, purchased by singer Janis Joplin just before her own death) declares, “The greatest blues singer in the world will never stop singing.” Smith may be ...

Rory Block may not see herself the way her fans, the music world, and the press view her career. But seminal Blues guitarist Robert Johnson’s grandson Greg Johnson says, “When I hear Rory Block’s ...

A new stage play celebrating the life of famed-but-forgotten Co Down blues singer, Ottilie Patterson, is opening as part of ...

Sue Foley’s 2024 album One Guitar Woman has been heaped with praise, earning Grammy and Juno nominations for best blues album. It’s overdue recognition not just for Foley, but for the women she pays ...