The New York Dance and Performance Awards, known as The Bessies, will present its 2024 and 2025 Lifetime Achievement and Outstanding Service to the Field of Dance awards at its 41st annual ceremony.

Country music is full of women with powerful voices. Loretta Lynn, Reba McEntire, Carrie Underwood, and many more have golden vocal cords. However, none of them would likely have reached the level of ...

Forget your grandma’s line dancing. A new generation is heel-toeing its way onto the dance floor in an explosive revival of the genre with a modern twang. The craze over country line dancing has taken ...

With deep sorrow and loving remembrance, we announce the passing of Patsy Margaret Edwards, nee Carter–beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and cherished friend–who passed away ...

In a generational shift for one of Baltimore’s most influential organizations, the Abell Foundation has selected Fagan Harris, Gov. Wes Moore’s chief of staff, as its new president. At 38, Harris has ...

Trustees of the Abell Foundation announced Aug. 18 that Maryland Governor Wes Moore’s chief of staff, Fagan Harris, will become the organization’s next president and CEO. Fagan will officially step ...

Remember when the only dances you needed to know were the Cupid Shuffle, the Wobble, and maybe, if you were from the old school, the Electric Slide? Simpler times. Nowadays, that’s not enough. Whether ...

She was a legendary country and pop music crooner of the 1950s and ’60s, known for her smooth-as-silk contralto voice and throaty vocals. Now the life of Patsy Cline is returning to the stage in Point ...

Cowboy hats and Nashville-style dresses proliferated Thursday night in Oakbrook Terrace. Not the first time I’ve noticed that fans of country music are more common in Chicago’s western suburbs than ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Black Southern line dance culture, and a co-sign from Beyoncé, has helped to popularize the song and its fan-snapping moves. By Kia Turner Wagener, ...

Patsy K. Comer, 92, of Bethlehem, passed away Sunday, June 15, 2025 at her residence. She was the wife of the late Martin W. Comer who died Oct. 31, 2020. She was born in Bloomsburg on June 22, 1932 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Shea's Performing Arts Center is honoring the man who helped bring the cultural institution into the modern age. The theatre announced Saturday afternoon the passing of former ...