Ray Charles, wearing sunglasses, faces a microphone in front of him. One of the national acts at the Kansas City Music Hall.
Renée Austin from her right side, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, closes her eyes, opens her mouth wide, lifts her chin, and spreads the fingers of her right hand wide as...
Reverend Billy C. Wirtz, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, from his right side, holds out his left hand, palm up, fingers spread, as he holds a microphone to his mouth with...
Ron Teamer & Smokin' Guns stand outside of the Grand Emporium during the Blues Challenge 2003.
Sandra Hall, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks pensively at her praying hands as her hands hold a glittery shawl.
Shemekia Copeland, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, pouts her lips with smiling eyes as she looks over her left shoulder and holds a microphone chest high in her right hand.
Sherman Holmes, Evie Quarles, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon stand side by side with their arms around each other smiling at the photographer in front of the stage at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, MO.
Sherman Holmes, Iris DeMent, Wendell Holmes, and Dixon, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand arm in arm, side by side, in front of the bar and smile at the photographer.
Sista Monica's lips are puckered as she points to herself with her left hand and holds a microphone in her right hand during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. She's wearing sunglasses.
Steve Pryor, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, sings into a microphone as he plays an electric guitar. The guitar has the name "Steve" on it with a lizard forming the "S".
Terry Evans, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, smiles as he sings into a microphone.
Tony "Little Sun" Glover, wearing sunglasses, looks seriously to his left as he holds an amplified harmonica with both hands during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Willie "Popsy" Dixon, of the band The Holmes Brothers, sings into a microphone during Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Wilson Pickett, one of the national acts at the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival, closes his eyes, makes a fist with his right hand and sings into a microphone held in his left hand.
Wilson Pickett crouches with his eyes closed while holding the microphone in his left hand as he performs during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Blues Notions Band stand outside the Grand Emporium as the winners of the Blues Challenge. Karl Angerer, Thomas Trashmouth Baker, Mike Sedovic, Cardy Quintero, and Tim Osborn.
