Alberta Adams, wearing sunglasses, sits and talks on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards.
Angela Hagenbach, wearing her hair in long braids and sunglasses on top of her head, closes her eyes and holds the microphone to her wide open mouth at Crown Center.
Baby Lee, from the left, sings into a microphone she holds with her right hand and points with her left hand at Divas Night Out at the Grand Emporium.
Bettye Jo Miller, wearing an animal print dress, laughs and claps her hands from behind a microphone at the piano at the Phoenix.
Blaze, makes fists, purses her lips and dances during the KC Blues and Jazz After Fest Jam at the Grand Emporium.
Brenda Walker, wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a zebra print coat, blows into a flute very close to a microphone at the Grand Emporium.
Brenda Walker, wearing a straw hat, sunglasses, crop top, and denim vest, plays a flute into a microphone during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Carla Robinson looks straight ahead with a serious look on her face as she plays an electric bass at the 6th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Carol Fran sings into a microphone at the 5th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Cotton Candy, wearing a dramatic hat and looking directly at the photographer, sings into a microphone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Cotton Candy Washington looks to her left to sing into the microphone as she plays a keyboard during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. An unidentified guitarist is visible behind her.
Cotton Candy Washington sings into a microphone she is holding while she performs at the Grand Emporium.
Cotton Candy Washington slants her eyes to the right with a smile on her face as she hold an unlit cigarette with long, long finger nails, long long earrings, and wearing a very fashionable hat at the...
Deborah Coleman, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes her eyes and smiles as she plays an electric guitar.
Deborah Coleman looks at the neck of an electric guitar she is playing on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards.
Deitra Farr, her hand clinched about her face and obscuring her face, at the 6th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Denise Brown, with pleading eyes, sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand as she holds her right above her head at the 6th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios...
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 closes her eyes and leans to her right as she sings into a microphone at the Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Diunna Greenleaf grins as she sings into a microphone held in her right hand during the Box Car Blues Festival at Knuckleheads Saloon.
Diunna Greenleaf, one of the national acts at the Blues Masters in Salina, Kansas, smiles at the photographer as she holds a microphone chest high in her right hand.
Etta James, one of the national acts to perform at the Cotillion Ballroom in Wichita, KS, holds a microphone to the left of her head and smiles to her right as a trumpet player plays behind the right...
Gaye Adegbalola from "Saffire the Uppity Blues Women". One of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes her eyes and shrugs her shoulder as she mutes an acoustic guitar.
Geneva Price sings into a microphone at Jardines. She's wearing a concha belt.
