The Motor City Madman kicked off the 2025 Texas legislative session by playing a few licks on an Austin street corner a block from the Capitol.

One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way that displayed a Black consciousness was the piano prodigy known as “Blind Tom.” ...

"The Star-Spangled Banner," a poem ... It's a beautiful song both for its simplicity — anyone can sing it — and for its intimacy. It doesn't tell a story about opposing forces, about battle ...

Jon Batiste—a native of Metairie, La.— will perform "The Star-Spangled Banner" before Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans. Batiste—a multitalented musician who works in the jazz, pop and R&B idioms—is a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing ... Evancho performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Trump’s 2017 ...

The “Star-Spangled Banner ... behind the National Anthem. It also came days after the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol building, which largely contributed to the importance of the ...