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Festival curator Jason Moran announced a lineup that includes him performing the music of Duke Ellington with Vermont Youth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mavis Staples is known as many things: soul hitmaker, civil rights trailblazer, 21st-century torchbearer of American gospel music, ...

Mavis Staples has announced her 15th solo studio album, Sad and Beautiful World. Set to release on Nov. 7 via Anti-, the rhythm and blues and gospel legend’s follow-up to 2019’s We Get By once again ...

June 4 and 5 in a concert to celebrate 250 years of American music. Tickets go on sale April 21.

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Mavis Staples ' latest album hums with hope that could only be delivered by the 86-year-old American treasure’s raspy contralto. “Sad and Beautiful World” sees the gospel and R&B icon, who briefly ...

Mavis Staples is keeping busy. The Chicago singer has a number of upcoming tour dates, many of which are with Bonnie Raitt. Staples is slated to hit the road in early-August and will be touring ...

The Love Rocks charity concert has become one of New York’s most decorated nights of rock ’n’ roll. By Alex Vadukul and Nina Westervelt Catch up on recent releases from Robyn, Oneohtrix Point Never, ...

Also on the crowded poster for the Blackbird Presents/Live Nation-produced concert were Jeff Tweedy, Nathaniel Rateliff, Norah Jones, Grace Potter, the War and Treaty ...