Following the release of her new album, the luminous (and legendary) singer came to Portsmouth to kick off a dozen or so tour ...

Mavis Staples is known as many things: soul hitmaker, civil rights trailblazer, 21st-century torchbearer of American gospel ...

Legendary soul singer Mavis Staples, age 86, is walking into the front row of the audience at the intimate Soho Sessions, ...

The latest solo album from the 86-year-old legend is collection of 10 songs that pulls from 70 years of a great musical ...

Now 86, she should be taking it easy, assured her wars have been won. Yet, here we are in 2025, and the last member standing ...

Norah Jones, Mavis Staples, and Warren Haynes also play intimate Soho Sessions to raise awareness for condition afflicting ...

Apart from hip-hop and the occasional rock or country song, these times of protest and divisiveness lack the musical voices ...

Mavis Staples was singing, “Hallelujah!” over and over. Her lips began to quiver; tears rolled from her eyes. And as her band played “Far Celestial Shore,” Staples took a seat. After assuring ...

Mavis Staples, the woman to whom a young Bob Dylan proposed marriage when they met at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival and ...

Legendary gospel-soul singer Mavis Staples made her name with her family band, but she’s made some of the best music of her career over the last decade with a surprising series of collaborators.

Free Press Summer Fest left behind a mixed bag of memories over its nine years, but at least one is a true gem: a YouTube clip of Mavis Staples singing “The Weight” in June 2013. Even for Houston, the ...

From there, they discuss the new supergroup Snocaps composed of Katie and Allison Crutchfield, MJ Lenderman, and Brad Cook, ...