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On the eve of unprecedented visibility for Guyton (the first Black female country artist to receive a Grammy nomination in 45 years since The Pointer Sisters received a Grammy for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group), Watson’s 20-page report, released today (March 12) notes that even including crossover artists, only 2.7% of country radio airplay over the past two decades were for songs by BIPOC women. According to Watson, the report focuses on the "race and ethnicity of artists, ensem...

You Should Be Dancing Sold out Tour Information You Should Be Dancing is a giant DISCO DANCING celebration! A night of incredibly danceable disco hits. A Boogie Wonderland featuring classic tunes groovy enough to make even a statue move! We are very excited to announce our first shows of 2021! We hope you can make it along to dance up a storm. If you love disco, are looking for a place to shake your thing and a great night out, come along to You Should Be Dancing. All kinds of nice people are w...

The Jazz River—The World According to Taj Share “I Don’t fit into a particular category. I tried for years to fit into what everybody else was doing and became completely frustrated. I thought there was something wrong with me, but actually there was something right. The whole point is to find your own road and not follow everybody else like some fashion monkey—and to feel lucky that your music doesn’t sound the same every time your play it.”—Taj Mahal Whether is it Rura...

Print It’s a hard life on easy street / Just white painted picket fences far as you can see / If you think we live in the land of the free / You should try to be Black like me ... —Mickey Guyton, “Black Like Me” (2020) Mickey Guyton could make music history for the second time in four months during next Sunday’s CBS telecast of the 63rd annual Grammy Awards. The Texas-bred singer and songwriter first made history in December when her stirring, social justice-inspired song, “B...

Gig Information You Should Be Dancing is a giant DISCO DANCING celebration! A night of incredibly danceable disco hits. A Boogie Wonderland featuring classic tunes groovy enough to make even a statue move! We are very excited to announce our first shows of 2021! We hope you can make it along to dance up a storm. If you love disco, are looking for a place to shake your thing and a great night out, come along to You Should Be Dancing. All kinds of nice people are w...

Its all systems go as the organisers of the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Fes...

Isle of Wight Radio Midnight - 6:00am Live and Local Podcast - Supporting Live Local Music On The Isle Of Wight The Pointer Sisters The Pointer Sisters are an American R&B singing group from Oakland, California, who achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s. Spanning over four decades, their repertoire has included such diverse genres as pop, disco, jazz, electronic music, bebop, blues, soul, funk, dance, country and rock. The Pointer Sisters have won three Grammy Awards and receiv...

By: Pollstar Staff In honor of Black History Month, Pollstar is spotlighting seminal live performances by Black artists every weekday throughout February. With a deep, rich tradition of transcendent and powerful performers across genres and the ages, we are well aware we can only scratch the surface of so many thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of brilliant Black performance. In fact, any one genre by itself, be it jazz, soul, R&B, hip-hop, blu...

R.I.P. ED PEARL, ASH GROVE Feb. 25, 2021 at 6:00 am I DIDN’T KNOW ED PEARL Never even met him. Only went to the resurrected, mid-’90s Ash Grove on the Pier a few times during its brief run. What a surprise: Pearl said he got a lot of grief from the City, even though they were supposedly trying to revitalize the Pier as an entertainment center. Among other requirements, he had to spend more than half a million dollars to refurbish the old Billiards Building, next to the carousel. Then the Ci...

By: Pollstar Staff In honor of Black History Month, Pollstar is spotlighting seminal live performances by Black artists every weekday throughout February. With a deep, rich tradition of transcendent and powerful performers across genres and the ages, we are well aware we can only scratch the surface of so many thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of brilliant Black performance. In fact, any one genre by itself, be it jazz, soul, R&B, hip-hop, blu...