Award-winning Broadway director and choreographer Jeffrey Page is taking his talents to Africa! Page has described the short film Blues People as a documentary showcasing Malian artists’ vibrant ...

In the 1960s, the city of Memphis played host to the Memphis Country Blues Festival. It was a celebration of blues artists that many white organizers helped put together. That festival was captured on ...

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His longevity is one of the reasons Ryan Coogler wanted the elder statesman of the blues to be in his movie, and he ...

In the days before the first Memphis Country Blues Society festival in July 1966, some 400 members of the KKK marched at Overton Park, even burning a cross at the parking lot. That didn’t stop the ...

Fans of “The Blues Brothers” have been looking forward to the return of a festival billed as the world’s greatest tribute to the iconic 1980 film. After being postponed in 2023 due to the Screen ...

(WGHP) — Not every story is big enough for the big screen. The story of the Aggies certainly is. Just ask any alumnus or alumna of North Carolina A&T State University. A documentary now available for ...

A film shot in (2014 and 2015) about the last remaining raw bluesmen from Mississippi and Tennessee. Full Blues Documentary STARRING: Robert Bilbo Walker Raymond Pat Thomas Watermelon Slim Super ...

The following is adapted from “The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic,” published March 19 by Atlantic Monthly Press. The author ...