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 ...

Mississippi and Mid-South artists Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and Eden Brent were among the winners at the 2026 Blues Music ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s a difference between a group of musicians performing together and one that becomes a “band.” Blue Velvet Atlanta is a band. Made up of Sandra Senn (founder and drummer), Minda Scrogan (lead ...

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 ...

Long before her six Grammy nominations and her signature 1973 hit “Midnight at the Oasis,” a young Maria Muldaur was befriended by a pioneering blues singer-songwriter named Victoria Spivey. A ...

Known as the “Queen of Gospel,” Mahalia Jackson needs no introduction. Countless award-winning gospel, blues, soul and jazz singers cite her as one of their key influences. Over the course of her ...

Highlighting women who play the blues comes naturally to Ozark Blues Society President Liz Lottman, but her Sept. 7 Women in the Blues showcase will be her first opportunity to launch a local show. A ...

Women in Blues and Jazz, an ancillary exhibition, is comprised of approximately 45 photographs of female blues and jazz performers from the 1920s through the 1950s. Together these exhibitions create a ...