American singer, songwriter and commanding stage performer Natalie Maria Cole, the daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, duly substantiate the jazz reference in the Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival. She ...

LONG BRANCH – The sun was baking the city's promenade Saturday afternoon, but the atmosphere was cool. The Long Branch Jazz and Blues Festival blanketed The Great Lawn with calming notes of two ...

Houston roadhouse blues and classic R&B singer Trudy Lynn and her group headline Saturday’s Long Branch Jazz and Blues Festival, taking place on the Great Lawn on the Boardwalk at Cooper Avenue ...

In the fall of 2004, when she was 12, Cole’s father took her to see Louisiana blues-rock singer/guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd at the Plex concert hall in North Charleston.

Cole performs on Thursday, Harris on Friday and Hyman on Saturday. All their shows begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Riverview High School Performing Arts Center in Sarasota.