Jonathan Richman, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, plays an acoustic guitar with attitude on his face while leaning back.
Jonny Lang, wearing a Dashiki, scrunches his face with his mouth wide open as he plays the guitar at the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. The picture is rather blurry.
Josh Smith, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks over his right shoulder as he plays an electric guitar and stands behind a microphone.
Joshua Nelson smiles as he holds a microphone in his right hand during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Joyce Wood and an unidentified white male guitarist of the Dick Dangerous Band play their guitars at the Grand Emporium. Joyce is standing as she plays the guitar and sings into a microphone with her...
Julia Naber sits at the bar as Roger Naber stands by her and they smile at the photographer during the last days of the Grand Emporium. An unidentified white male bartender is visible behind them.
Julie Major of the Twang Dang Poodles opens her mouth wide as she turns her head to her right to sing into a microphone and plays a tambourine at the Grand Saloon.
Jürgen Welge, wearing a tuxedo, is photographed making a face while playing at the Hurricane. There is a sequin curtain behind him.
Jürgen Welge smiling as he plays the drum set in a Hawaiian print shirt, shorts, and headphones at the Myra Taylor Recording Session at Airborne Audio Productions.
A photograph of the seated audience during the Kansas City Blues Society's 20th Anniversary at the Grand Emporium.
Kark Angerer looks at the neck of his guitar as he plays at the Grand Emporium.
Karla Peterie, of the band Rain Dogs, wearing a sundress and a straw hat, smiles over the microphone as she plays a mandolin during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Karla Peterie, of the blues band, Rain Dogs, looks at the neck of a mandolin she is strumming as she stands behind a microphone.
Karla Peterie of the blues band, Rain Dogs, stands and plays a washboard with drum set brushes as her hair blows in the wind. The washboard is fitted with a horn, a cowbell, and other percussive...
Karrin Allyson sings into a microphone held with her left hand during the Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival at 18th & Vine.
Katie Jackson grins as she sings into a microphone, left hand lifted chest high, at the 6th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Mark "Kaz" Kazanoff, wearing a ball cap, warms up by blowing into a saxophone while he stands facing the wall and a stained glass window at the 6th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue...
KC Kelsey Hill gapes at the audience over his left shoulder as he plays a guitar in a wide-brimmed hat during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater.
Keb Mo, wearing a fedora, scrunches his face as he sings into a microphone and plays a guitar during the Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival at 18th & Vine.
Keb' Mo', one of the national acts to appear at the Madrid Theater in Kansas City, Missouri, sits and sings into a microphone looking up and to his left as he plays a guitar.
Keith Crossan of the Tommy Castro Band, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes his eyes and blows into a saxophone he is playing into a microphone.
Kelley Hunt and Johnnie Johnson were a national act that performed at Liberty Hall in Lawrence, KS. Kelley Hunt sings into a microphone as she stands behind and looking at Johnnie Johnson playing the...
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.
Kelley Hunt, from the left, smiles down at a keyboard as she stands behind a microphone at the Grand Emporium. A guitarist is visible looking down behind her.
Kelly, a bartender, talks on a cellphone from behind the bar at the Grand Emporium.
