Student performances in drama and music — plus an annual crowd-pleasing event for children with special needs — are among the highlights of the spring 2025 season at North Central College in ...

The Gospel Meets Jazz Band led by trumpeter Lanard Perry serenaded hundreds of people during its first concert since 2020. The band held its first concert after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 ...

A Big Freedia show is typically a twerk-a-thon of booty-bouncing dancers. But throughout the 2025 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, fans have seen a different side of the Queen of Bounce. This ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival each spring is known for hosting some of the world's most famous jazz, funk and rock acts. Yet it's also become a showcase for lesser-known ...

Oakland’s own Father of Gospel, Hawkins, still influences 21st century music with his Grammy-winning hit "Oh Happy Day," as ...

Renowned saxophonist Kirk Whalum and Berks County’s own Reading Choral Society, directed by Graham Bier, will collaborate during the popular “Gospel According to Jazz!” concert, back this year for ...

With their new album Rhapsody, the extraordinary vocalists Ifedayo Gatling, Dennis Bailey, and George Marage are able to fully explore the entire range of music that influenced them. The follow-up to ...

Just a minute or two after the Shades of Praise choir finished their rousing set at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Gospel Tent Friday, an announcer took to the microphone to broadcast the ...

Walk into the First Baptist Church of Bridgehampton as service begins, and the very first sound you’ll hear is music. “We welcome you,” the five women of the Joyful Praise choir sang on a recent rainy ...

Gospel music and faith have long been a part of Black culture in the U.S. From hymns that would be sung on slavery fields to anthems of the civil rights movement, gospel has been there. Adeerya ...