The Buckinghams (music group)

The City of Des Plaines recently announced details about the popular Summer Fling festival for 2013. The third annual Des Plaines Summer Fling will be held on Friday, July 19, through Sunday, July 21, along Ellinwood Street between Lee Street and River...

Kory and the Fireflies will open for Hinder tonight in the opening concert of the 2012 Corn Palace Festival in Mitchell. Hinder is a rowdy group from Oklahoma, according to a news release. The band's 2005 album, “Extreme Behavior,” went triple platinum....

Top 5 Concerts of the Coming Week 1. BRIAN MCKNIGHT It was more than a dozen years ago that R&B singer Brian McKnight had his longest run near the top of the charts — two months — with the song......

The allure the 1960s television band The Monkees still holds nearly 45 years after its show was canceled and the group had the last Top 40 hit of its original run is amazing. Whatever nerve that band tapped into, it’s......

A year ago today -- May 1, 2011 – Musikfest Café at SteelStacks in Bethlehem opened to the public with a concert by Valley blues guitarist Craig Thatcher and friends. To honor that first year, let’s take a look back......

Tanya Tucker, Emily Osment of the Disney Channel, 38 Special and a variety of acts from the 1960s are among the attractions at this year's Corn Palace Festival, Aug. 23-28 in Mitchell. Also performing will be two acts coming to the Brown County Fair -...

Your Mixtapes: Rolland 1. America: Simon and Garfunkel 2. Hillbilly Highway: Steve Earle 3. One Piece at a Time: Johnny Cash 4. Especially in Michigan: Red Hot Chili Peppers 5. Roll Me Away: Bob Seger Marilyn 1. A Kind of Magic: Queen 2. Now I'm...

Rob Grill, who for nearly 45 years was the voice of the 1960s band The Grass Roots and sang on such hits as “Midnight Confessions,” “Temptation Eyes” and “Live For Today,” died Monday just hours before the group was to....

The lesson from the Happy Together Tour that played Musikfest Café at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks in Bethlehem on Monday is this: The music lives forever; musicians don’t. And surprisingly, neither do fans. Happy Together Tour's all-star...

ArtsQuest has announced the lineups for the first two outdoor festivals it will hold at its planned SteelStacks campus opening next month on former Bethlehem Steel property in South Bethlehem – the ¡Sabor! Latin Festival on June 17-19 and RiverJazz....

Grammy-winning folk artist Nanci Griffith, former Best New Artist Grammy winner Marc Cohn, jam band moe. and a show full of 1960s pop singers have just been announced as the latest offerings for ArtsQuest’s new Musikfest Café. Tickets to the......

ArtsQuest’s new Musikfest Café will open to the public on Sunday (there will be an invitation-only show with 1970s rocker Steve Miller there Saturday), and now that 75 shows there have been announced to the public, I feel comfortable starting......