Music

Today on the Regional Roundup Labor Day special, we bring you three stories about the biggest, best, and worthwhile destinations in the Philadelphia region.

Farah Jasmine Griffin's 2001 book on Billie Holiday posed a challenge to biographers and our understanding of Holiday. She reflects on her changing connection to Lady Day.

Fifty years to the day he performed at Woodstock, a weathered David Crosby stepped to the main stage of the Philadelphia Folk Festival.

Coltrane recorded the album in New Jersey, at the admiring behest of a Québécois filmmaker, who used it to score his docufictional film "Le chat dans le sac."

"It's hard to compare any modern-day festival to what occurred at the original Woodstock."

Multiple women have come forward to The Associated Press to allege that Plácido Domingo, one of the world's most powerful and recognizable opera stars, sexually harassed them.

Here are the seven new names that’ll be added to the luminary lineup of plaques on the sidewalk of South Broad.

Curtis Mayfield's previous songs for The Impressions had often been broadly inspirational — but here, he aimed his pen directly at black listeners, pledging that better times.

The Philadelphia native was instrumental in the rise of some of the biggest names in 90s Hip Hop – Schoolly D, Kriss Kross, Cypress Hill, The Fugees, and Lauryn Hill.

This week; how the city plans to cool down Philly's hottest neighborhoods, the fight over upgrading Pa.'s voting machines, and the world's biggest instrument in Atlantic City.

Reporters from Chinese media invited to Philadelphia, ask the Orchestra about U.S-China relations, and what China was like back during their first visit.

David Bromberg had forged a deal with the Library of Congress to have the largest American-made violin collection kept there. But the plan hit a sour note.

Twenty-five years after he scored the original The Lion King, Hans Zimmer returns to Pride Rock to revisit the classic musical themes for a re-imagined tale.

The OutKast rapper has gained a rep as a roaming flautist.

Thousands flocked to the Parkway to enjoy a free concert and fireworks display for July 4th.