Classical Blues Cabaret's Rosa Vidro Richardson, left, Phil Weaver, Ingrid von Spakovsky and "Microwave Dave" Gallaher. (Courtesy image/ photo Dennis Keim/ graphic Meredith Kilby) HUNTSVILLE, Alabama ...

NEW YORK — When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds - participating in local, classical piano competitions by day, then “gigging in night ...

Larry Hoffman does not mind being teasingly called the blackest white guy in Baltimore. He is likely to take it as a compliment. All his life, he has been besotted by music, especially one of the two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I have early memories of sitting in the grocery store parking lot with my dad and my sister, patiently waiting for my mom to come ...

The cavalcade of homegrown musical talent continued at the Music Oasis with Classical/Blues Cabaret. As its name suggests, Classical/Blues Cabaret is an amalgam, with one member of the trio on ...

In 2008, Corky Siegel wrote and produced a musical score that blended his harmonic blues with classical music, creating a unique opus: Symphonic Blues No. 6. "I toured with this all over the world, ...

Soul-blues-rocker Jackie Venson, 24, sounds like she must have been wailing on the guitar all her life. Actually, she didn’t pick up the instrument until four years ago, during her college days. A ...

Rachel Barton Pine. Photo by Andrew Eccles. Violinist (and veteran Classical Classroom guest) Rachel Barton Pine talks all about her Music by Black Composers initiative, a project that’s been in the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds — participating in local, classical piano competitions by day, then “gigging in ...