Arts and Culture

Tara Stallworth Lee takes music and translates it into a visual feast through photography. Her new book, “An Alabama Song,” offers a music journey through pictures of the people who make and study it.

Whitman, Alabama features everyday Alabamians reciting Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” While the film debuted in 2017, airport leaders said it’s a perfect way to celebrate the U.S.'s 250th birthday.

Poet and Samford University English professor Alex Mouw published his first poetry collection,The Unbelieving Yelp of Prey, earlier this year. It draws on his Calvinist upbringing.

John Shults, owner of True Vintage Guitar, had a hunch when a picture of the guitar hit his inbox.

With their fluid sound, the band joins modern groups reshaping bluegrass, and pushing boundaries, for today’s musical landscape.

Ira Glass, host of This American Life, will be in Birmingham Saturday at UAB's Alys Stephens Center. WBHM’s Vahini Shori spoke with him about the show and his career.

This weekend marks 25 years for the Old 280 Boogie in Waverly, Alabama. What may be surprising is how it started – as a reaction to highway planning.

North America sent millions of dollars in aid to Ireland during the Great Famine. A group of enslaved people in Alabama were among those who donated.

The Henderson Bluegrass Jamboree, a bi-annual event which takes place the second weekends of April and October, is a well-kept tradition among the Southeast’s bluegrass community. From sunup to sundown, picking circles are formed as are impromptu jams between strangers-turned-friends.

The Birmingham Youth and Young Adult Choir returns to NBC's "America's Got Talent" Tuesday after having won one of the show's golden buzzers earlier this summer.