Ann Rabson looks out over the keyboard she is playing and sings into a microphone on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C. Handy Awards. A drum set and a brick wall are visible behind her.
Barbara Blue, wearing sunglasses, sings into a microphone and plays the tambourine during the Box Car Blues Festival at Knuckleheads Saloon.
Blue 88, a blues band including Mark Corbett and Sue Corbett, possibly bassist Ron Rummage and drummer Joe Weaver, stand on stage holding their instruments at the Grand Emporium during the Blues...
Blue 88 Band including Mark and Sue Corbett, smile directly at the photographer as they stand on stage during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. The Corbetts hold a guitar each. A man...
Sue Corbett kneels on the ground with her eyes closed and chin lifted. Mark Corbett, making crazy eyes, Rocky Britain, grinning, and a white man named Mark stand behind Sue in a semi-circle with their...
Carol Duboc, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, sings into a microphone that she holds in her right hand.
Carolyn Wonderland, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes her eyes and smiles with her hair hanging in her face as she plays an electric guitar.
The blues band, Cobalt Project Band, which includes: Branden Hudspeth, Sue Stubbs, Jan Faircloth, Paul Greenlease. Standing inside the Grand Emporium. Brandon Hudspeth looking down. Jan Faircloth...
The blues band, Cobalt Project, including Brandon Hudspeth, closing his eyes and playing the guitar, Jan Faircloth, playing the drums, Sue Stubbs, closing her eyes and singing into a microphone, and...
Cobalt Project sits on a staircase while taking a break from performing. Bottom to top: Brandon Hudspeth, Paul Greenlease, Sue Stubbs, and Jan Faircloth.
Connie Humiston, Bobby Rush and a group of six unidentified people stand behind a seated DC Bellamy. Marvine McKeithen stands beside DC Bellamy at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas.
Danielle Schnebelen (Danielle Nicole) looks to her left over the neck of a bass she is playing at the Grand Emporium.
DC Bellamy, wearing a fedora and holding a drink, points a finger at a patron seated at a table as he regales them with a story at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. The audience and seated and...
Evie Quarles and Bobby Rush give each other a big side hug as they grin at the photographer during the Thanksgiving Blues Breakfast in Kansas City, KS. Evie's glasses are propped on her head and...
Evie Quarles and Carey Bell during the All Stars Blues Jam at Blue Heaven Studio in Salina, KS. Evie, glasses resting on her upper forehead, smiles at the photographer as she has her left arm around...
Miss Honey Piazza puts her left arm around the shoulders of Evie Quarles. They lean in towards each other so their heads touch. Both are seated and smiling at the photographer. Evie wears a camera...
Evie Quarles sits to Myra Taylor's right as Myra puts her left arm around Evie's shoulders at Washington Park in Kansas City, MO. Both are smiling at the camera. Evie's glasses are setting on her head...
Grand Marquis during the Big Joe Turner Birthday Bash at BB's Lawnside BBQ: Bryan Redmond, wearing a zoot suit and holding a tenor saxophone stands next to Ben Ruth who is smiling and holding his...
Karla Peterie's hands as she plays a mandolin. She is a member of the blues band the Rain Dogs,
Janiva Magness, one of the national acts to perform at Knuckleheads Saloon, laughs and turns to her right as she holds Connie Humiston's hand. Connie is holding Janiva's hand as she laughs and speaks...
Janiva Magness, one of the national acts to perform at the Gladstone Blues Festival, sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand as she hold out her right hand, palm down, all fingers splayed...
Janiva Magness, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, laughs as she sings into a microphone she is holding in her left hand.
Jay McShann, wearing a baseball cap, smiles to his left as Evie Quarles leans towards his left shoulder during the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival. Evie's glass rest on the top of her head.
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.
