Craft Recordings and HighTone Records kick off the year with a standout album from one of the greatest names in the Americana ...

Carnegie Hall will present AN EVENING WITH THE GRAND OLE OPRY on Friday, March 20, 2026, at 8:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / ...

The singing pianist’s songs have been recorded by Whitney Houston, Destiny’s Child, Boyz II Men, Yolanda Adams and more Special to the AFRO Sandy Spring, MD — Richard Smallwood, an eight-time Grammy® ...

Performances pick back up at the Santa Maria Civic Theatre (SMCT) with Always, Patsy Cline, which runs every weekend from Jan. 9 to 25. “The show combines humor, sadness, and heartfelt moments, ...

On this day (December 31) in 1997, Floyd Cramer died of lung cancer in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 64. He was one of the most in-demand session pianists in Nashville. He pioneered the “slip ...

He died of complications of kidney failure at a nursing home in Sandy Spring, Md. Grammy-nominated gospel singer-songwriter Richard Smallwood died Dec. 30 from complications of kidney failure. He was ...

The late Calvin Newton of Lookout Mountain, Ga. called his friend Larry Ford the best tenor Gospel singer of his lifetime. Ford died Dec. 13, just three days after his 78th birthday. Mr. Ford was ...

Milwaukee's Lightning & Thunder is lighting up the big screen. The real-life Neil Diamond tribute act, featuring married couple Mike and Claire Sardina, is the subject of a movie, "Song Sung Blue," in ...

Throughout the course of music history, we’ve lost countless bright and talented musicians to fatal plane crashes. Buddy Holly’s demise was later dubbed the “Day the Music Died” by Don McLean. Otis ...

Memphis filmmaker Craig Brewer's new movie, "Song Sung Blue," opens in theaters in Memphis and across the U.S. and Canada on Christmas Day. Here's some information that might be helpful or interesting ...