“In those days,” Aaron Copland once said of his early studies, “music was like the inside of a great building that shut out the street noises.” Later Copland was to do more than any other composer of ...

Shemekia Copeland is bringing her brand of blues to the 2023 Bourbon & Blues festival Saturday, Aug. 19, at the McGrath Amphitheatre in downtown Cedar Rapids. Event hosts are the Linn County Blues ...

When blues vocal dynmao Shemekia Copeland takes the stage at Humphreys Backstage Live on Shelter Island next weekend, she’ll be performing songs from her latest album, which in November earned three ...

Grammy-nominated blues singer Shemekia Copeland tackles serious subjects like racism, gun violence and climate change in her music. Copeland — the daughter of Texas blues legend Johnny “Clyde” ...

I grew up thinking of Aaron Copland as the musical voice of America. Like most everyone, when I hear Copland's music, I see the majesty of the Grand Canyon: I feel my breathing expand and relax with ...

Possessing a voice that could turn a turbine, Shemekia Copeland never struggles to be heard. Having sung the blues for audiences for most of her 42 years, though, Copeland found herself wanting people ...

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Shemekia Copeland, as my dad used to say, comes by it honestly. As the daughter of revered blues guitarist and singer Johnny Clyde Copeland, she began performing onstage with her father when she was ...

There is something foundational about composers recording their own music. Though the necessary technology didn’t exist to capture the likes of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and others who performed much of ...

Composer Stewart Copeland, best known as the drummer for the Police, discusses composing and music scoring with music and film students at SMU on Thursday, April, 12, 2012. Rex C. Curry / Special ...