Multi-talents led Alexander Kofi from gangs to Olympic Trials to the MO bootheel and to SGF. For the frontman of message-based Jah Kings, music saved his life.

The local musician and wilderness expert opens up about his most recent tour and why you're better off following him after the apocalypse than Bear Grylls.

Springfield Regional Opera has a new regime, a new direction and a new spirit of collaboration. What will it mean for the people in the seats?

The SGF musician overcame an outcast youth, debilitating illness and the Cold War to make critically acclaimed music. What came next was even more surprising.

There was a time when Jim Wirt was the young musician fighting for recognition, the guy rolling the dice and moving away from Springfield to take a shot at making it in rock ‘n’ roll. That was in the early ’80s, when his band Fools Face was all the rage in SGF and getting signed to a major record label and put on the radio was the big goal....

It’s amazing to think not even three years ago Cornbelt Chorus was exactly where local bands such as The Cropdusters are today: Playing to packed rooms onstage and on the tip of everyone’s tongue off it. No band garnered as much attention at the time as quickly as Cornbelt, and a series of serendipitous events looked like they were going to push the...