The 2025 edition of the Chicago Blues Festival has one of the stronger lineups in recent memory—its mix of hallowed veterans ...

Legendary singer Mavis Staples decided to retire in 2023. Then she changed her mind. “She's driven to spread the message,” ...

Mavis Staples remembers. In her new children’s book, Bridges Instead of Walls: The Story of Mavis Staples, she reaches back to when her father determined the type of music that was permissible ...

Mavis Staples has been a gospel singer longer than Elizabeth II has worn the crown. During concerts, sometimes, she might take a seat and rest while someone in her band bangs out a solo for a ...

By Grayson Haver Currin Reporting from Chicago and Los Angeles On a rainy April day in Chicago, Mavis Staples sat in the restaurant of the towering downtown Chicago building where she’s lived ...

SIOUX CITY -- With a lineup of performers that includes a young, Grammy-nominated vocal powerhouse as well as a legendary ...

It's not Beyonce, but Jeff Tweedy and Mavis Staples closed out a week of The Late Show's DNC coverage with a performance of the Staple Singers' civil rights-era anthem "Freedom Highway." ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Mavis Staples performs at the Beacon Theatre in 2023 in New York City. Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images Share For eight decades, Mavis Staples has been taking us ...

Grammy-nominated vocal powerhouse Teddy Swims will headline the 35th anniversary Saturday in the Park festival July 5 in ...

Mavis Staples celebrated her 85th birthday on Wednesday, July 10. The legendary soul/gospel artist first made her mark as the deep-voiced co-lead singer of her family group The Staple Singers ...

If you know, you know! The Chicago Blues Fest is one of the greatest Blues Fest in the land. Headliners Mavis Staples, ...