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Denise Norwood's day job is working with her husband, Mark, at the Reedley Opera House. Read More

If there's a poster boy for success in 2009, it's probably Adam Lambert. Read More

This is what happens when the legendary Albert Collins teaches his drummer to play electric blues guitar and he winds up playing for John Mayall's 1980's version of The Bluesbreakers . Read More

Bill Kirchen and his Telecaster will warm a December evening Saturday when Kirchen's band appears at the Beachland Ballroom tavern performing a holiday show. Read More

David Grisman's "dawg" music, the name he gave his once unique and eventually influential mélange of bluegrass, jazz, folk, and western swing stylings, is about as close as things come to a sure-fire good time — the sonic equivalent of watching amazingly spry octogenarians cut a rug. Read More

Artists associated with Stony Plain Records, the Edmonton, Alberta-based roots music record company, have been honored with no less than 12 nominations for the 2010 Blues Music Awards, to be held in Memphis on May 6. Read More

Students at Coon Valley Elementary School were treated to a special performance by Leah Tysse, an up- and-coming songwriter, musician and singer, whose ties to the area prove without a doubt that blood is thicker than water. Read More

If it's December, it must be almost time for Bill Kirchen 's annual holiday homecoming show. Read More

Calvin Coolidge, of all people, once astutely noted that Christmas is not a date. Read More

If you've got $80 lying around, you can buy yourself a sealed copy of the 1970 Louie and the Lovers vinyl album Rise , or at least you could a few days ago when I searched for it on eBay. Read More