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.
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...
Barbara Blue, wearing sunglasses, sings into a microphone and plays the tambourine during the Box Car Blues Festival at Knuckleheads Saloon.
B.B. King from below, smiles as he plays an electric guitar. One of the national acts at the KC Spirit Festival.
Bobby "Blue" Bland, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes his eyes, scrunches his face, and lifts his chin as he sings into a microphone held in this right hand.
Bobby Womack, wearing a cap and sunglasses, sings into a microphone, mouth wide open, during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Carol Duboc, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, sings into a microphone that she holds in her right hand.
Chris Murrell, from the right, sings into a microphone during the Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival at 18th & Vine.
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.
Danielle Schnebelen (Danielle Nicole) looks to her left over the neck of a bass she is playing at the Grand Emporium.
David "Honeyboy" Edwards, one of the national acts to perform at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine, sits and sings into a microphone as he holds a guitar under the elbow of his right arm. His left hand sits...
Denise LaSalle, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, smiles with a lifted chin as she hold a microphone chest high in her left hand.
Diunna Greenleaf, one of the national acts to perform at BB's Lawnside BBQ for the Big Joe Turner Birthday Bash, from her right side, opens her mouth wide and closes her eyes as she sings into a...
Diunna Greenleaf grins as she sings into a microphone held in her right hand during the Box Car Blues Festival at Knuckleheads Saloon.
Eddie Turner looks up as he sings into a microphone and plays a guitar during the Box Car Blues Festival at Knuckleheads Saloon.
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.
Frankie Lee, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a baseball cap and holding a microphone in his right hand, smiles at the photographer.
Harry Hypolite, one of the national acts to perform at the Blue Room, 18th & Vine, wearing a French beret, closes his eyes as he sings into a microphone and plays an electric guitar.
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.
A white male member of the blues band, Hipnotics, sings into a microphone at the Grand Emporium.
Irma Thomas, wearing a sundress, smiles up and to her left as she holds a microphone in her right hand and lifts her left elbow even with her shoulder 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.
