Sweet Soul Music caps Libraries Rock! talks
The Libraries Rock! Summer Lecture Series at Belfast Free Library, 106 High St., will conclude Monday, Aug. 20, at 6:30 p.m. with a talk by Neal Harkness titled That Sweet Soul Music. As white...
View ArticleREVIEW: 'Dreamgirls' at Covington's The Carnegie Features Fine Acting and...
The musical, about the bumpy road to stardom for an African-American female singing group, recalls the stories of The Supremes and The Shirelle The musical Dreamgirls has a storied history: A Broadway...
View ArticleAmerica's Got Talent: Simon Cowell advises English singer Courtney...
The 58-year-old judge was so stunned by 14-year-old singer Courtney Hadwin in the first live quarterfinals on Tuesday that he warned her to ignore everyone - even him. 'Normally, I give people advice...
View ArticleFlashback: See Aretha Franklin's Show-Stealing Scene in 'The Blues Brothers'
In 1980, the blockbuster film The Blues Brothers featured cameos from a bevy of musical titans, including James Brown, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway and John Lee Hooker, but it was a five-minute...
View ArticleMUSE/IQUE Takes A Musical Road Trip With U.S./ROUTES
MUSE/IQUE, Pasadena's pioneering live music organization and counter-conventional orchestra, concludes STATES/UNITED: Mapping Musical America, its inaugural summer series at The Huntington Library, Art...
View ArticleThe 'King of Rock and Roll' and the 'Queen of Soul' died on same day - four...
The same day - exactly 41 years after the nation lost Elvis Presley, its "King of Rock and Roll" - the nation is mourning its "Queen of Soul," Aretha Franklin. The same day - exactly 41 years after the...
View Article'AGT': 14-Year-Old Singer Courtney Hadwin on the Legacy of Aretha Franklin
Following the first round of the America's Got Talent quarterfinals on Tuesday, 14-year-old vocal phenom Courtney Hadwin emerged as one of the show's major frontrunners with a jaw-dropping performance...
View ArticleBringing Aretha Franklin to perform Raleigh in the late '60s was a pretty big...
Aretha Franklin performs at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 26, 1968. She performed at Raleigh's Dorton Arena around 1969.
View ArticleReview: Prince's 'Anthology: 1995 - 2010' Shows...
Subscribe to the all-new Rolling Stone! Everything you need to know from the authority on music, entertainment, politics and pop culture. A new compilation shows that even with his biggest hits behind...
View ArticleCountry-Funk-What Hank Williams and James Brown have in Common
Most of you are probably familiar with the two-beat "boom-chick" style of rhythm playing so prevalent in classic country music. You may be surprised to learn that the groove that drives, say, Hank...
View ArticleThe Radical Poet Who Perfectly Captured Aretha Franklin
Aretha a "political artist." But those are folks who never dug that Black women in "The Struggle" have always been two souls warring in one body against white supremacy in the world, and against a...
View ArticleSeattle organist Delvon Lamarr brings serious funk to his nimble organ trio
Although the sound of the jazz organ trio-where the keyboardist lays down bass lines with foot pedals while a guitarist plays chords and a drummer adds propulsion-has never gone away, it has changed...
View ArticleNewsbook: Read These 3 Books About Aretha Franklin and Soul Music
The Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, who died last week at 76 , was larger than life. In his appraisal, Times critic Wesley Morris wrote : "We're never going to have an artist with a career as long,...
View ArticleContinue reading At the movies, I fought the tears and the tears won
You're sitting there in the dark, finishing your popcorn, resisting the urge to check the time, when suddenly something up on the screen strikes your emotional nerve center. Maybe good has triumphed...
View ArticleSetting the Tempo
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View ArticleThe Empress Theatre Presents Kenya Baker Trio, 9/12
The Kenya Baker Trio lays down jazzy blues and funk originals, and original arrangements of blues, jazz funk and soul from great artists of the 1960's through the 1990's and beyond. Kenya is the...
View ArticleAll aboard the Soul Train for Glusburn gig
The dynamic seven-piece band will be at the arts and community centre to perform classic soul songs from the Stax and Motown labels. Music lovers can expect hits by the likes of Aretha Franklin, James...
View ArticleThe days the music died: A look at funerals of the greats
In this Aug 18, 1977 file photo, pallbearers carry the flower-covered coffin of Elvis Presley into the Forest Hills Cemeteries mausoleum in Memphis, Tenn. After a thief tried to snatch his body, the...
View ArticleSam Cooke to Whitney Houston: The funerals of musical greats
In this Aug 18, 1977 file photo, pallbearers carry the flower-covered coffin of Elvis Presley into the Forest Hills Cemeteries mausoleum in Memphis, Tenn. After a thief tried to snatch his body, the...
View ArticleThe days the music died: A look at funerals of the greats
In this Aug 18, 1977 file photo, pallbearers carry the flower-covered coffin of Elvis Presley into the Forest Hills Cemeteries mausoleum in Memphis, Tenn. After a thief tried to snatch his body, the...
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