Ninety-one years ago today, Merle Haggard's longtime pedal steel player and the man who taught Barbara Mandrell to play was ...

Whatever happened to Barbara Mandrell? Why has she largely stayed out of the public eye since her 1997 retirement? Will she ever re-emerge into the spotlight? Keep watching for the answers. Donald ...

After teaching herself to knit, she invented and cataloged stitch patterns, publishing seven foundational books that sold hundreds of thousands of copies. An excerpt from the 2011 video interview ...

"The Masked Singer" is back. The popular Fox television series premieres Season 14 on Wednesday, Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. ET. In the singing competition, celebrities perform against each other in elaborate ...

Richard Smallwood, the eight-time Grammy-nominated gospel singer and composer, has died. He was 77. A representative for Smallwood confirmed the "Total Praise" musician died on Tuesday, Dec. 30, at ...

In solidarity with First 5 California and its statement honoring the lives and legacies of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, First 5 Santa Barbara County joins in mourning the profound loss of two ...

Florida State football announced Monday that defensive lineman Mandrell Desir has been named to On3’s Freshman All-American team. Right out of the gate, Desir has made an immediate impact alongside ...

Santa Barbara Strings will present its Winter Concert, 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13 at the Music Academy of the West. More than 70 young string players from across Santa Barbara County have been ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara Strings is pleased to announce its Winter Concert on Saturday, December 13, at 4pm at the Music Academy of the ...

Thousands of songs representing some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression would have likely been lost to landfills and faded from memory.

No one would have been more pleased with the Rebel Women’s Voices series than vocalist Barbara Dane. During her long, eventful journey she held her own with era-defining artists across the musical ...