A grant from the National Endowment for the Arts will support an expansion of the Great American Songbook Foundation's flagship education program, the Songbook Academy summer intensive.

While the PR trumpets that listeners can now ‘experience what might have been their MTV Unplugged moment’, this is the diminishing returns of a great legend. Old ghosts in a new machine.

Ex-Traffic member Dave Mason is set to release a new solo album, ‘A Shade of Blues,’ following successful heart surgery; Mason also has announced a 2025 tour.

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Throughout a notable career as a New Orleans singer, songwriter and performer, Sarah Quintana has been firmly rooted in her ...

Grammy-winning bassist Esperanza Spalding teases a "pool of songs" for her Jan 26, 2025, concert at Warner Theatre in D.C.

Acoustic blues traditionalist Jontavious Willis will perform at SPACE on Saturday, Jan. 25. If you're reading this, congratulations! You survived the ...

After her father died, Jula began hosting daily “listening parties” of his epic music collection. Now nearly half a million ...

Björk Guðmundsdóttir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1965, the daughter of an electrician and an activist. She was ...

After a long and eventful year for the music industry, certain tracks and albums stood out to the Music Beat writers of the ...