No one sings pain, joy, or survival quite like a blues singer. Born from the spirituals, work songs, and field hollers of enslaved African Americans, blues music rose up from the cotton fields and ...

Blues music is a soulful genre. It has roots deeply embedded in the Black experience. Blues has long been a powerful expression of the struggles, joys and resilience of Black life in America.

Known as the “Queen of Gospel,” Mahalia Jackson needs no introduction. Countless award-winning gospel, blues, soul and jazz singers cite her as one of their key influences. Over the course of her ...

– The ladies sing the blues and jazz this summer in Women & Blues, two exhibitions that prominently feature women from these American musical genres. Amalia Amaki: Boxes, Buttons and the Blues, ...

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 ...

“Women of the Blues: A Coast-to-Coast Collection” curator Lynn Ormon Weiss was joined by Amanda Gresham, Anne Harris and Shirley King for a panel discussion for the exhibit currently on display at the ...