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How Yacht Rock, a genre invented in the ’00s, gave a name to the smooth West Coast music of the ’70s and ’80s. We're sorry, but something went wrong while ...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS − Yacht Rock Gold Experience is set to entertain fans with classic hits. The concert is scheduled for 4 p.m. Aug. 10 at the Performing Arts Center of Wisconsin Rapids, 1801 16th St. S ...

At what point does the world’s background music become a musician’s foreground music? Or, more specifically, where does a life in smooth jazz begin? For Tony Craddock Jr., a 30-year-old soprano ...