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 ...

Keyonte George’s breakout season with the Jazz traces back to faith, accountability, and a gospel-music moment that stuck.

I was happily lurking in the “food court” zone of the Monterey Jazz Festival last weekend, awaiting my BBQ Tri-Tip sandwich from Cre’s, which I knew would not disappoint. It’s a tradition here at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before she was known as The SoulfulPsalmist, Charlena Nutall had to search within her artistry and faith to find a place in music where she felt she belonged. "I go where God sends me," said Nutall, a ...

The first time saxophonist Dave Koz played Wolf Trap, he opened for Ray Charles, in a major moment of his early career. Now, a seasoned artist with 12 albums and 20 years of successes behind him, he ...

Smallwood died at the age of 77 from complications of kidney failure on Tuesday, December 30, 2025.