Ian Harper found a sweet spot to expose kids to the blues in a summer music program. It came in connecting a musical genre that grew out of the cotton fields of the Deep South to today's popular music ...

Downtown Davenport and the Mississippi Valley Blues Society welcome the 40th annual Blues Fest at LeClaire Park September 19-20 Ryan West and Mark Zaputil joined Our Quad Cities News with this message ...

Blues for Kids, the charitable arm of the St. Louis Blues, this week are launching Louie’s Little Free Library, a new book exchange program designed to enhance book accessibility and cultivate a love ...

A jam-packed week of new music releases includes a salute to one of the country’s most venerable blues venues, the return of a visionary British jazz-rap troupe and with new titles from the likes of ...