Bettye Lavette News

The Lansing 150 Grand Finale reception tonight will cap the celebration of the city's 150th anniversary.

Lucinda Williams The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and Case Western Reserve University celebrated Janis Joplin during the 14th annual American Music Masters series, entitled Kozmic Blues: The Life and Music of Janis Joplin , Sunday night to a near-capacity audience at the State Theater in Playhouse Square.

Today the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concludes their 14th Annual American Masters Series with a concert tribute to this year's spotlight aritist Janis Joplin.

Michigan residents should be alarmed that the state and local branches of government are falling behind in bridge safety inspections.

A half-dozen cool things in music, from two points of view: Michael Bubl, "Crazy Love." There's nothing like a standard, especially when the phrasing brings the lyrics to life.

On Friday, November 6th, the Stax Museum of American Soul Music is hosting an opening reception for "Still Life in Soul," an exhibition of photographs of soul-music performers by Jacob Blickenstaff.

Halloween Trot: The Barrington Breakfast Rotary Club will host its annual 5K "Trick or Treat Trot" Sunday to benefit area school and community programs at Harris Bank, 201 S. Grove.

Sisters in Soul featuring Marcia Ball, Bettye LaVette and Maria Muldaur, will perform at the James Lumber Center for the Performing Arts at the College of Lake County at on Oct.

Soul Great Bettye Lavette Featured at "Jammin' Away the Blues"; Mental Health Association of Essex County Inaugurates National Program By Mental Health Association of Essex County 10/13/2009 The Blues touch everyone - whether through the emotion and intensity of this true American music form or by the despair and isolation of depression.

26. Singletary Center for the Arts, 405 Rose St. $20, $25, $28. 257-4929. www.singletarytickets.com. If a single performance defines the remarkable career renaissance of Bettye LaVette, it arrived last December at the Kennedy Center Honors.

Box office: 994-2900; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays www.zeiterion.org or 994-2900. Most venues serve a certain niche among music fans.

American history viewed through the lens of alt-country liberalism, Song of America attempts to tell the country's story over three discs and 50 songs and mostly succeeds.

The term "soul survivor" is a rather hackneyed cliche these days, but if there is anyone who deserves it more than Bettye LaVette , I'd be pleased to hear about them.

LEXINGTON, Ky. One of the greatest soul singers in American music history, Bettye LaVette , will kick off the 30th anniversary of the Singletary Signature Series at the University of Kentucky Singletary Center for the Arts .

On the bandstand at Jazz Alley, where she's winding up a two-night stand tonight, LaVette is vigorously celebrating a musical career that rose "up from the crypt" recently after several decades of smalltime gigs and near-obscurity. With a blazing young band behind her , LaVette in concert cooks up some stick-to-the-ribs R&B tunes from her past .

Fickle weather and last-minute headliner replacements aside, Outside Lands was a success, by most yard sticks.

Diana Krall, with bassist Robert Herst, performs in Los Angeles last week. Juke joint or symphony hall, Motown or Nanaimo, B.C., blues award or Grammy -- what kind of diva will you choose when Bettye LaVette and Diana Krall come to town? It's not just the distance between LaVette's old-school soul and Krall's cool pop jazz that separates the two.

Bettye LaVette Venerated soul songstress Bettye LaVette 's triumphant new six-song EP A Change Is Gonna Come Sessions , previously an iTunes exclusive is now available from all digital services.

More than 40 years after his tragic, violent death, Sam Cooke is still known as the legendary soul and gospel singer who penned "A Change is Gonna Come," which found a new audience with the election of America's first black president.

Soul singer-songwriter Sam Cooke is seen in a 1964 file photo. A Mississippi music festival this weekend is dedicated to the 1950s and '60s singer.