Arts and Culture

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.

Lesley Ann Hyde started the Southern Ghost Girls Tours, a group of women using spiritual investigations of historic sites as ways to preserve pieces of Birmingham’s history.

Birmingham’s 47th annual Pridefest wrapped up this weekend, but not before a parade brought out revelers in colorful dress to the city’s Lakeview District Saturday night.

Birmingham native Sebastian Kole has accomplished a great deal in his career. As his alter ego Pynk Beard, though, he could achieve much more.

Gina Coleman and her band Misty Blues will bring Odetta back home, performing a live tribute to the Birmingham legend at the historic Carver Theatre on Saturday, April 19.