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

The Chicago Blues Festival, Tony Award-winning musical “Kimberly Akimbo” at CIBC Theatre and Ribfest Chicago are among the ...

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

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 ...

Granfalloon ends this weekend with a free downtown concert and final events celebrating literature, music and art inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.

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 ...

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 ...

A band that's worked with the likes of Harry Styles, John Legend and Ringo Starr said another act left them "totally taken ...

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

We’re celebrating the legacy of club founder Clifford Antone at Waterloo Park on April 26 and 27 with blues and soul living legends Lee Fields and Mavis Staples and rising-star newcomers Jalen ...