Tracy Chapman

It was an unexpected musical success story last year, one that has only continued to snowball: Country music, with its loyal listenership on the margins of pop's mainstream, had a crossover moment.

A bus carrying wedding guests overturned and killed 10 people in an "unimaginable" night-time crash in a popular wine region near Sydney, police said Monday -- Australia's deadliest road accident in 16 years.

Missouri-born jazz, soul, gospel and pop opera singer Alicia Olatuja takes the stage at the Half Note from Friday, March 15, through Monday, March 18, with a show of career highlights as well as tracks from her latest album, "Intuition: Songs from the Minds of Women," which includes original songs as well as others by the likes of Sade, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman and Linda Creed.