More than 10 years ago, Lynn Orman Weiss, a veteran music publicist and journalist with 30 years of experience, had an idea to produce a concert called Chicago Blues Mamas for Obama. As Orman Weis ...

Ma Rainey is best known, but Ida Cox, Cora Mae Bryant, Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins and Precious Bryant left essential music. From left to right: Ma Rainey, Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, Ida Cox, Precious ...

CLEVELAND — Cleveland's Waterloo Arts District will come alive with the sounds of blues music next weekend as the Women in Blues Music Festival takes over The Treelawn music hall for four days of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mid-South artists Mr. Sipp, Eden Brent and Christone “Kingfish” Ingram were among the winners at the annual Blues Music Awards on ...

A group of highly regarded Bay Area musicians is launching their new ensemble theatrical concert at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley on Thursday, March 30. At the concert, the Blues is a Woman Ensemble ...

Whitney Houston Performs In Paris Bercy on May 18th, 1988. She is one of the best female vocalists of the 1980s. The 1980s were a great time for music, with so many iconic female singers and vocalists ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -The Treelawn in Cleveland’s Waterloo Arts District is celebrating Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day this weekend with a four-day music and arts festival celebrating ...

Bay Area playwright, vocalist and educator Pamela Rose is thrilled to be bringing her acclaimed musical "Blues Is a Woman" to San Francisco's Peninsula for the first time. About a decade ago, she had ...

Ma Rainey and her band the Rabbit Foot Minstrels circa 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. Ma Rainey and her band the Rabbit Foot Minstrels circa 1924 in Chicago, Illinois.Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/ ...

Several musicians will gather at Seekers Church in Takoma on Friday for the Say Sister! Guitar Festival, celebrating women redefining the guitar across jazz, blues, folk, and avant-garde genres.