Mavis Staples News

Earlier this month, soul legend Mavis Staples made her way over to Memphis for the Beale Street Music Festival , which she played day 2 of.

In support of his upcoming solo album, Walk Through Exits Only , Philip H. Anselmo - lead vocalist with Pantera - brings his new band the Illegals to the Upstate Concert Hall in Clifton Park at 8pm on Wednesday, August 14.

In a story May 11 about the Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival, The Associated Press, relying on information from The Annapolis Capital, reported erroneously the real name of entertainer Trombone Shorty.

The Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival is earning a reputation as one of the best festivals on the East Coast.

We've known about a few Celebrate Brooklyn! shows already , but festival has announced their full 2013 schedule which includes Big Boi, Amadou & Miriam, Calexico, Mavis Staples, Cody Chesnutt, Os Mutantes, The Waterboys, Jamie Lidell / Dan Deacon , and They Might Be Giants ... all of which are free.

The LEAF event has always been about music and family. You can count on seeing great bands and performers, as well as many of the same faces in the crowd each spring and fall.

After all, it was a very casual idea that blues harp legend James Montgomery would sit in at a PRoJECT PERCoLAToR gig last year in the theater of the Olde Mistick Village Art Cinemas.