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.
Carol Duboc faces to the left of the photographer as she smiles and sings into a microphone at the Grand Emporium. Her left hand lifted expressively below her lifted chin. She wears a choker necklace...
Connie Hawkins closes her eyes as she sings into a microphone she is holding at the Grand Emporium.
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...
Dave Stephens with a microphone near his mouth, is looking up to the left at his hand with finger spread. There is a cane topper visible in the forefront of a rabbit head sculpted out of metal. There...
David Basse sings into a microphone wearing a fedora. His right hand rests on the microphone as his left hand clutches the microphone stand during the Kansas City Seven at the Grand Emporium.
Diane "Mama" Ray, holding a lit cigarette in her right hand and a microphone in her left hand, closes her eyes and sings into a microphone at the Grand Emporium during the Hope House Benefit.
Geneva Price sings into a microphone at Jardines. She's wearing a concha belt.
Geneva Price folds her hands in her lap as she sits sideways on a chair during the Living Blues weekend at the Mutual Musicians Foundation. She's wearing a wide-brimmed hat.
Ida McBeth smiles as she holds a microphone to her mouth at Rhythm and Ribs 18th & Vine Jazz Fest. She is seated and wearing a floral dress.
Ida McBeth smiles as she holds a microphone to her mouth at Rhythm and Ribs 18th & Vine Jazz Fest. She is seated and wearing a floral dress.
Ida McBeth looks coyly to her right as she sings into a microphone during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Ida McBeth, wearing a bejeweled pillbox hat, throws her head back and laughs as she stands on stage and holds a certificate which states "Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas...
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.
Karrin Allyson sings into a microphone held with her left hand during the Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival at 18th & Vine.
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.
Lady Red, from the left, closes her eyes and sings into a microphone she's holding in her right hand while her fingers on her left hand are splayed toward the ceiling during the Hope House Benefit at...
Lavay Smith, wearing a tropical sundress and a flower in her hair, smiles as she sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Lawrence Wright, wearing a tuxedo, sings into a microphone as he plays a keyboard during the Living Blues Party at the Gem Theater. He's facing to the photographer's right.
