"We've come tonight to bring you some joy, some happiness, some inspiration, and some positive vibrations," Chicago's own Mavis Staples begins her latest album, Mavis Staples Live: Hope at the Hideout ...

Rhiannon Giddens has announced "American Tunes: Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," a special five-night presentation of concerts featuring the Pulitzer and Grammy-winning artist along with Mavis Staples, ...

As liner notes to her 2025 album, Sad and Beautiful World (Epitaph Records) rightly maintain, "Few people wield the combination of moral authority and musical artistry that Mavis possesses." The ...

This is a time of hurt, but it’s also a time of empowerment. Today, in honor of the music industry’s planned Black Out Tuesday, many have been sharing a stark black square on social media in ...

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 ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Live Oak Bank Pavilion has announced that Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue and Ziggy Marley along with Mavis Staples and Robert Randolph will play a concert on June 22. The ...

The Dillon Brouse Quartet performs at 6:30 p.m. today at Cottage Circle at Mount Sequoyah for the ongoing Artosphere festival happening throughout Northwest Arkansas this month. A Northwest Arkansas ...

The new record, which was announced Tuesday (March 15), was recorded in Woodstock, New York at Levon Helm Studios in the summer of 2011. The collaboration marks one of Helm’s final recordings before ...

Mavis Staples, whose titanic career spans the civil rights movement, Soul Train and solo work with Curtis Mayfield, Prince and Jeff Tweedy, closed... Newport Folk Festival programmers like to close ...

When Mavis Staples first played Holiday Cheer for FUV in 2011 with The Head and the Heart, Dawes, and Josh Ritter, the WFUV family (and listeners) considered ourselves very lucky. That luck was ...