Blues Fest Spotlights Luther Kent: 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Visit Baton Rouge Swamp Blues Stage New Orleans native Kent moved to Baton Rouge when he was 13 years old. But by then, he’d soaked up the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The Baton Rouge Blues Festival brings musicians from across Louisiana and the nation for a weekend of swamp blues. According to the festival’s website, this Baton ...

Leslie Johnson, the architect of Louisiana swamp-blues who was better known as "Lazy Lester," died Wednesday afternoon at his home in Paradise, California. He was 85. In the 1950s and ’60s, Johnson ...

It's showtime for Lauren Lambert-Tompkins. Named executive director of the Baton Rouge Blues Festival & Foundation in August, she's been preparing since to run that show this weekend. Lambert-Tompkins ...

Lazy Lester, a singer, harmonica player and guitarist from Louisiana whose country- and Cajun-tinged sound made him an architect of the style known as swamp blues, died Wednesday at his home in ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Gather your friends and family to enjoy food, more than 30 performers, dozens of artist vendors, and kid activities for the Baton Rouge Blues Festival happening April 19 ...