A unique free event featuring the lively music of the Chardon Polka Band will take place 3 to 5:30 p.m. March 15 to benefit the SubZero Mission organization. Beer & Hymns will take place at ...

Recently after worship at First Baptist Church, Asheville, N.C., where I’m the interim minister of music, a choir member approached me almost as soon as the pastor had finished the benediction and ...

UPPER MARLBORO, Maryland (RNS) — Smallwood, an eight-time Grammy nominee, died on Dec. 30, at age 77 of complications from kidney failure.

Harvest hymns, hymns sung in school assembly, and a hymn that became particularly meaningful to a listener after the ...

Parishioners attend the Inclusive Christmas Mass at St. Bernadette Catholic Church in Orchard Park, N.Y., on Dec. 27, where changes were made to the service to be more sensory friendly and accessible.

It’s hard to get more mellow than the 1972 hit by Seals and Crofts, “Summer Breeze”. Just as the title suggests, the song is a pillowy cloud of a track, gently bouncing you along its ...

Songwriters living in ancient Egypt would never have expected the words and melodies they sang would feature on Australian music charts 1,800 years later. But one Australian academic's obsession with ...

Supersister – no, not another Girls Aloud wannabe group – were among the most innovative and original bands of the early prog era. And their debut album, Present From Nancy, has become iconic since ...

Dave Ball, who as one half of Soft Cell brought dark, cutting-edge synth-pop to the masses, has died aged 66. Representatives for the musician said he “passed away peacefully in his sleep at his ...

British music producer and instrumentalist Dave Ball, best known as one half of the pioneering synth-pop duo Soft Cell, has died. He was 66. Ball, who had been battling health issues in recent years, ...

Synth player and producer had huge success with Tainted Love and other Soft Cell hits, and later returned to UK Top 10 with dance project the Grid Dave Ball, who as one half of Soft Cell brought dark, ...