For many musicians, New Orleans holds a particular kind of magic not found anywhere else. “Music is everywhere, the city is steeped in it,” says Meghan Parnell, frontwoman with Bywater Call, a ...

American soul-blues singer Annika Chambers and Canadian blues-rocker Paul DesLauriers perform at 7 p.m., Saturday, June 15 at the Mother Lode Theatre. Houston native Chambers began singing as a child ...

Already dubbed the goddess of Canadian blues, Rita Chiarelli solidified her reputation within the genre by participating in the award-winning documentary Music From the Big House. In it, this famed ...

Otis Taylor is one of Colorado’s many undiscovered treasures — but if White African, an early release by NorthernBlues Music, a new Canadian blues imprint, receives the attention it deserves, he won’t ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. It’s been over 40 years since The Legendary Downchild Blues Band have ...

There was a time when Taylor Kirk, vocalist and songwriter for Canadian folk blues band Timber Timbre, resisted the blues. “I used to play guitar in my dad’s blues rock band. I was maybe 16 when I ...

Singer/guitarist Tarek Jafar and drummer Justin Tessier might have polished their sound for November LP Pretty Monster, but The Blue Stones don’t want listeners to think they’ve lost their edge. “It ...

Canadian blues musician Rita Chiarelli set out on a journey to visit the birthplace of the blues and ended up at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, where she discovered a rich treasure of ...

PAXICO — The Paxico Blues Festival is set to return for its 21st year, bringing top blues musicians to the small town of Paxico on Sept. 20. The festival, which runs from 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., is free ...

Canadian singer-songwriter Matt Andersen has an unrelenting work ethic. Since the early 2000s, he’s seemingly always been on tour or recording new music. Andersen immediately cites his father, a ...