King Alex at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blue Festival 2006
King Alex, wearing an Irish cap, looks down at the guitar neck as he sits and plays during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. Parts of two other band musicians are visible behind him.
King of the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002
Spoon Wilson and D.C. Bellamy, standing wearing beefeater costumes, and an unidentified African American woman, have crowned Little Hatch the king during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival...
Larry Garner at Club Paradox
Larry Garner, one of the national acts to perform at Club Paradox, Kansas City, Kansas, wearing a fedora, closes his eyes and frowns as he plays an electric guitar.
Larry Garner at Club Paradox
Larry Garner, wearing a fedora, closes his eyes as he plays the guitar at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. An unidentified white male keyboard player, and a drummer, and an African American male...
Lazy Lester at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2003
Lazy Lester, wearing a straw hat, closes his eyes as he blows into an amplified harmonica during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. He stands in front of the festival banner and hugs the...
LC Gant at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2004
LC Gant, wearing a flat cap, smiles and looks above his glasses over his right shoulder as he plays a drum set at the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Lem Sheppard at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002
Lem Sheppard, wearing sunglasses, looks down at the electric guitar he is playing during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Lem Sheppard during the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2001
Lem Shepphard, wearing a crocheted skull cap, closes his eyes and sings into a microphone as he plays the guitar at Club Paradox during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Little Hatch, King of the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002
Provine "Little" Hatch close-up photograph as the king of the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. Little Hatch wears a crown and cape as he smiles for the photographer.
Lou Dare, Saint Charles, and Myra Taylor at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2008
Lou Dare and Saint Charles, dressed in medieval clothing, stand behind Myra Taylor, also wearing medieval clothing and a crown, in a wheelchair during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Louisiana Red at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006
Louisiana Red looks down at a guitar he is playing as he sits on stage during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. An unidentified keyboardist is visible behind him.
Marquise Knox at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2008
Marquise Knox, one of the national acts at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival, closes his eyes as he plays an electric guitar as he stands behind a microphone.
Marquise Knox at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2008
Marquise Knox clutches a microphone with his hands as he holds it to his mouth during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Marva Whitney at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2003
Marva Whitney, in front of the KCK Street Festival banner, looks to her right as she sings into a microphone during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Marvine McKeithen at Club Paradox
Marvine McKeithen speaks into a microphone with a band behind her at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. The crowd is seated at the bar or at tables in the foreground.
Marvine McKeithen at the Club Paradox
Marvine McKeithen stands behind the bar and looks doubtful at an unidentified African American woman seated at the bar telling a story at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. An unidentified African...
Marvine McKeithen at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000
Marvine McKeithen smiles from under an umbrella she's holding in her left hand as she sits beside an unidentified child behind a table laden with t-shirts during the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues...
Marvine McKeithen, Otis Clay, Roger Naber, Dawayne Gilley at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002
Marvine McKeithen, Otis Clay, Roger Naber, Dawayne Gilley stand on the street for a photograph during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Mike Kovacs, Marvine McKeithen, Lou Dare, Tom Baker, Otis Clay, DC Bellamy, Groovie Grant, and Aaron Hodge at the Street Blues Festival 2002
Mike Kovacs, Marvine McKeithen, Lou Dare, Tom Baker, Otis Clay, DC Bellamy, Groovy Grant, and Aaron Hodge stand on the street laughing and looking at the photographer during the Kansas City, Kansas...
Mike Roark at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005
Mike Roark of the band, Rain Dogs, wearing sunglasses, looks down at a keyboard he is playing during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Millage Gilbert at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2004
Millage Gilbert, dressed as a king, with two unidentified white women in vintage clothing on each arm, and a crowd of people around them for the Millage Gilbert Parade during the Kansas City, Kansas...
Millage Gilbert at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2004
Millage Gilbert smiles as he stands in a king costume during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Millage Gilbert, Joni Mayberry, and Marvine McKeithen at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2001
Joni Mayberry smiles at the photographer as she sits on Millage Gilbert's lap while he signs event posters. Marvine McKeithen sits behind Joni with the event tents and crowd behind her during Kansas...
Myra Taylor at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000
Myra Taylor sings into a microphone she holds in her right hand during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Myra Taylor, Lydia, Chad and Jasmin Kassem at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2008
Lydia Kassem stands behind as Chad Kassem kneels beside, holding Jasmin Kassem, Myra Taylor all dressed up and sitting in a wheelchair during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. All are...