blues

The W.C. Handy Music Festival is returning to the Shoals. Music fans will join together by the thousands for the biggest tourism event in North Alabama.

One of the first things that visitors to downtown Florence may notice is a statue at the entrance to Wilson Park. WC Handy welcomes visitors to the park holding his trumpet high. November marks the 150th anniversary of Handy’s birth. He was a man whose determination pulled him up from homelessness to being recognized as the "Father of the Blues."

The Alabama Blues Project is soon to have its own permanent home.The organization will be relocating to the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center in…

Say “the blues,” and Mississippi might come to mind. But Alabama has just as much heritage when it comes to this musical form, and for the past 20 years,…

Alabama's unemployment rate remains unchanged from a month before.The Alabama Department of Labor announced the jobless rate for June on Friday.The number…