Aaron Neville, one of the national acts to perform at the Kansas City Spirit Festival, wearing a leopard print tank top, stands and sings into a microphone he holds in his left hand.
Alberta Adams sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand while Johnnie Bassett stands next to her, wearing a flat cap, smiling, and playing a guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C...
Amazing Grace walks towards Roger Naber, wearing a suit jacket with animal print cuffs and collar, with open arms during the 20th anniversary celebration of one of the Kansas City juke joints called...
Ann Rabson, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes her eyes, opens her mouth wide and sings into a microphone as she plays an acoustic guitar. The back of a keyboard is...
Ann Rabson, Andrea Faye, and Gaye Adegbalola, a national act to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand on stage, arm in arm, grinning at the unseen audience.
B.B. King from below, smiles as he plays an electric guitar. One of the national acts at the KC Spirit Festival.
Bob Margolin sits and sings into a microphone, mouth wide open, while he plays a microphoned slide dobro guitar. Charlie Musselwhite is seated to Bob's left playing the harmonica during the Kansas...
Bobby Womack, wearing a cap and sunglasses, sings into a microphone, mouth wide open, during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Chris Duarte, John Jordan, and Little Hatch, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand on stage in a triangle facing each other. Chris plays an electric guitar and lifts his...
Corey Glover, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes his eyes as he sings into a microphone he holds in his left hand and expresses with his right hand.
D.C. Bellamy, wearing a ball cap, sings into a microphone as he strums a guitar at B. B.'s Lawnside Bar-B-Q during the Kansas City Blues Society 3rd Annual Acoustic Showcase.
Dave and Dick Pruitt, of the band the Bel Airs, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, focus on playing an electric guitar, an electric bass and singing.
Duck Warner looks serious wearing a cowboy hat, as he holds a trumpet on his leg while he sits on a bench outside. Hugh Ruddick is next to Duck on the bench but sitting on the arm of the bench with...
Eric Bibb stands as he sings into a microphone and plays an acoustic guitar next to Dave Bronze, who is seated and looking down while he plays an electric bass. They are a national act that performed...
Ernie Locke, of the band Parlay, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, from his right side, perspiring heavily, leans in and holds a microphone close to his lips with his right...
Evan Dease from his right side, wearing a velour shirt with circles on in, holds his mouth wide open as he is singing into a microphone as he holds his electric guitar at the Grand Emporium.
Michelle "Evil Gal" Willson, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, grins towards her right shoulder as she plays a tambourine.
Henry Townsend, face just visible above a piano, wears a ball cap and sings intensely into a microphone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
James Harman, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, sings into a microphone he's standing behind.
Jessie Mae Hemphill, wearing an elaborate cutwork jacket and a bejeweled cap, smiles over her left shoulder at B. B.'s Lawnside Bar-B-Q during the Kansas City Blue Society 3rd Annual Acoustic Showcase...
John Mooney closes his eyes as he strums a guitar at B. B.'s Lawnside Bar-B-Q during the Kansas City Blues Society 3rd Annual Acoustic Showcase.
John Wilson, wearing a Batman ball cap and a Hawaiian print shirt, closes his eyes as he sings into a microphone held in his right hand at B. B.'s Lawnside Bar-B-Q during the Kansas City Blues Society...
Johnnie Taylor, Jr., one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a fedora, closes his eyes and sings into a microphone he holds in his right hand as he makes a fist next to his...
Joshua Nelson smiles as he holds a microphone in his right hand during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Kelley Hunt, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes her eyes as she stretches her mouth wide and leans in to sing into a microphone she holds in her left hand.
