This Alabama musician is a master of a dying art. Updated: Oct. 22, 2023, ... By the time Swafford was 12 or so, he was playing different types of music in a little garage band.

Fourth of July festivities at the Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater, including TSO pops concert, fireworks display; jazz at ...

Plato Jones, a Tuscaloosa-based cover band comprised of Athens natives, performs throughout Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. The high-energy band performs funk, Southern rock, classic rock, and ...

A band director was tased and arrested after he disregarded police requests to stop his band’s performance following a high school football game, according to a Birmingham Police Department ...

The Alabama band director who was shocked by a police stun gun and arrested after refusing to stop his band’s performance at a high school football game said the post-game songs had been ...

Minor High School band director Johnny Mims, 39, and his ensemble of 145 students were about a minute away from being done with their final song when a police officer approached the podium.

Johnny Mims, Minor High School’s band director, was arrested during a confrontation in which he refused to stop his band from playing after their team won. By Christine Hauser The football team ...

The Alabama high school band director shocked with a stun gun after a football game last week in front of dozens of students was "just doing my job," he said Wednesday.. Police officers in ...

I t’s been a banner year for the Red Clay Strays, one that in-the-know publications like Billboard and Rolling Stone knew was coming, but that the Alabama band will never take for granted. They ...

Johnny Mims, the band director at P.D. Jackson-Olin High School in Birmingham, Alabama, was tased and arrested for not complying with officers' orders, police said.

The video, published by Birmingham police Monday night, shows the chaos before, during and immediately following the arrest of Minor High School band director Johnny Mims at a school stadium last T… ...

An Alabama high school band director was tased on a football field Thursday after he refused to stop playing for the crowd, police said. Johnny Mims from Minor High School was charged with ...