[Changes to how students can use student charge](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2017/6/22/student-charge-will-be-limited-fall/) have prompted the Missouri Students Association to recommend establishing...

Matthew Crook is on a mission to end boring music. The Columbia-based musician and director is one half of Dismal Niche, an experimental record label, and organizer of the upcoming music festival of the...

Known for his smooth, rich tunes, soul and R&B, singer Booker T. Jones will perform Stax Records recording studio’s greatest hits, including some of his own, at the Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival at Stephens...

For Jamie Varvaro, an 11-year veteran of Roots N Blues N BBQ and the festival’s director of development and marketing, the carefully thought-out details set this festival apart from others. From strategic...

On stage, Emmylou Harris channels the same desire to perform that she had fifty years ago as a college student at the University of North Carolina. After pursuing a music career in New York City and watching...

After experimenting with a guitar when he was only 12 years old, Gary Clark Jr. started his career of mixing blues, soul and hip-hop in Austin, Texas. While he performed in small locations around Austin,...

Dallas-based alternative country-rock band the Old 97’s’ will take the stage at the Roots N Blues N BBQ festival on Sept. 29 for a set that you won’t want to miss. The Old 97’s are made up of...

With artists like Leon Bridges performing at the Roots N Blues N BBQ festival, one needs to show up prepared and with food from one of the vendors in hand in order to fully appreciate his sultry voice....