Fresh off her shock win at the Grammys, Bonnie Raitt visited the Bridgewater Hall as part of her UK tour

Blues hero Eric Bibb returns to Manchester, performing a career-spanning set at The Stoller Hall.

Rhythmically powerful and lyrically thoughtful, Being is one of the most exciting releases in Baba Maal ’s long discography

The Black Blues Brothers, a carnivalesque tribute to The Blues Brothers, is poignantly ending its run at The Lowry in Black History Month

Dynamic, throwback blues trio GA-20 release ‘Crackdown’ from the forefront of the traditional blues revival

Visit Blues Kitchen for soul food, exquisite cocktails and an atmospheric club night.

‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ featuring great performances by Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis is a powerful exploration of artistry, race, inequality and the American dream

Georgina Davidson discusses locally curated culture of The Congleton Jazz and Blues Festival with Documentary Director Callum Hilditch-Crimes

Throughout, this EP sets the terms. The music pulls you this way and that at will, dragging you from chorus to verse and back again before you’ve had time to realise which way is up

Robbie Beale and Freddie Paley, review the ‘transcendental journey’ that Palace took their audience on during the Manchester leg of their Life After tour