The Bloomington Blues and Boogie Woogie Piano Festival will return for its seventh year this Sunday, including 10 artists performing blues, boogie woogie and other related music styles. The festival ...

Bloomington musician Mark Wiedenmayer said, "H-T survey results voted Craig Brenner best pianist in Bloomington in 1987." Brenner pours his keyboard skills into something else, too — the Bloomington ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Chase Garrett’s among a small crop of young pianists to move to St. Louis over the last few years, each of them digging into classic veins of American songcraft. Playing around town as a solo act and ...

Meade “Lux” Lewis didn’t just record a blues—he conjured a rolling landscape of rhythm and motion. Cut in 1928, “Honky Tonk Train Blues” demanded a great deal of the pianist: relentless drive, ...

Piano man Ricky Nye admits there was no “grand design” when he started his Blues and Boogie Piano Summit 15 years ago. He was simply carrying out what he sees as the highest calling for those into the ...

“Long tall Marcia Ball” is the hottest blues, rhythm and blues, and funky piano player this side of Professor Longhair himself. A Louisiana native who’s now based in Austin, Texas, blues singer and ...

The Gulf Coast blues singer and pianist Marcia Ball says her music reflects a sense of place as well as a state of mind. “My experiences living in Louisiana and Texas have been a really great ...

Come along for an evening of hip swinging old school rock and blues with Alex Douglas - blues/rock n roll pianist and singer-songwriter Rock out to Roadhouse Blues, House is Rockin, Whole Lotta Shakin ...

Artists from near and far will be descending on Maryport this weekend for the annual Blues Festival. The headlining act has been personally recommended by Buddy Guy, who headlined last year’s festival ...