Today in Music History for Nov. 24: In 1924, Canadian cellist Lorne Munroe was born in Winnipeg. He was principal cello of the Philadelphia Orchestra for 13 years, beginning in 1951. At the invitation ...

I’ve done many Grateful Dead tributes over the years, and every time I go back to the recordings, Donna Jean is there — prominently and powerfully. In my mind, the most potent Dead performances are ...

When Maggie Rose took the stage with My Morning Jacket’s Jim James at the MusiCares Persons of the Year gala earlier this year, she understood the assignment: Deliver the timeless Americana of the ...

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a former vocalist for the Grateful Dead and a session singer whose voice graced some of the most iconic hits of the 1960s and ’70s, has died at 78. Her representative ...

Grateful Dead singer Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay has died at age 78. Grateful Dead singer Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay has died. She was 78. Godchaux-MacKay died on Sunday at Alive Hospice in Nashville, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a soulful mezzo-soprano who provided backing vocals on such 1960s classics as “Suspicious Minds” and “When a Man Loves a Woman” and was a featured singer ...