Children from around the Beaches and Jacksonville have been invited to perform with blues musicians on stage today at the George's Music Springing the Blues Festival in Jacksonville Beach. They ...

Dan Treanor calls his full-throated music Afrosippi blues, and he plays those songs on instruments he makes himself, bending notes so authentic that listeners do double-takes at this white-haired ...

AUSTIN, Texas, April 20, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The month of April is nationally recognized as Child Abuse Prevention Month. With this month-long observance, Texas based non-profit Kids In A New ...

A Cast of Blues includes sound, too. You can don a pair of headphones and listen to the music of the blues legends. You'll also find some early blues instruments, such as the diddley bow, a homemade ...

Tony Trischka is one of the most influential banjo players in roots and bluegrass music. The Grammy-nominated artist has been at the forefront of the instrument starting in the mid-1960s and has ...

It's not difficult to think of great blues artists—there's a roll call of honor as long as that of great jazz artists—and every sizeable town in the world has a blues band or two. So where is the ...

In a Xavier University office, professor and jazz clarinetist Michael White showed blues guitarist Chris Thomas King a decade-old page of lecture notes containing King’s name. “I’ve been talking about ...

Marching bands, funk, jazz and blues: Instruments A Comin' is musical mash up united by New Orleans and philanthropy. For the past 15 years, this Tipitina's Foundation benefit has showcased New ...

It seemed that at its core, it had this sense of honesty about it,” says Dan Treanor of the blues and how it has become a lifelong obsession. “It seemed like it touched something inside of me that ...