Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The Baton Rouge Blues Festival brings musicians from across Louisiana and the nation for a ...

Friday evening features Chris LeBlanc’s 5 p.m. Live After Five! performance at the Visit Baton Rouge Swamp Blues Stage and singer-pianist Hannah PK’s 4:30 p.m. set at the AARP Front Porch Stage. Blues ...

It's showtime for Lauren Lambert-Tompkins. Named executive director of the Baton Rouge Blues Festival & Foundation in August, she's been preparing since to run that show this weekend. Lambert-Tompkins ...

Leslie Johnson, the architect of Louisiana swamp-blues who was better known as "Lazy Lester," died Wednesday afternoon at his home in Paradise, California. He was 85. In the 1950s and ’60s, Johnson ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Gather your friends and family to enjoy food, more than 30 performers, dozens of artist vendors, and kid activities for the Baton Rouge Blues Festival happening April 19 ...

This is the eighth release in this series of Ace CDs celebrating the indigenous rock ’n’ roll and R&B of South Louisiana and East Texas. Among the 28 rare and vintage tracks, one will find a few ...