Alberta Adams sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand while Johnnie Bassett stands next to her, wearing a flat cap, smiling, and playing a guitar on Beale Street, Memphis, for the W.C...
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.
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.
Some of the crowd dances while others sit with drinks in front of the stage at Club Paradox in Kansas City, Kansas. A guitarist and a harmonica player are visible behind the dancers.
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.
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.
Myra Taylor is seated in a wheelchair and singing into a microphone with her eyes closed. Sonny Kenner is standing to her left and also singing into a microphone. Ben Kynard and an unidentified...
Jessie Mae Hemphill, wearing an elaborate cutwork jacket and a bejeweled cap, smiles over her left shoulder at B. B.'s Lawnside Bar-B-Q during the Kansas City Blue Society 3rd Annual Acoustic Showcase...
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...
Groups Levee Town and Simplexity (Jeff Jones; GoGo Ray; Dave Wilkerson; Wes Blackman; Blaze; George Robinson; Tyson Leslie; Mark Gilmore) sit outside on steps and smile at the photographer.
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, Groovy Grant, and Aaron Hodge stand on the street laughing and looking at the photographer during the Kansas City, Kansas...
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...
Harry Hypolite leans forward grinning over a seated Myra Taylor at the Blue Room in front of the bar, 18th & Vine.
Pearl Thuston Brown sits in the audience wearing a fur hat and clapping her hands at the Mutual Musicians Foundation building listening to Toni Oliver sing as a band back her up at the Jay McShann...
Phillip Walker, one of the national acts to perform at Knuckleheads Saloon, wearing a flat cap, hugs his electric guitar on his lap and leans toward Myra Taylor who is also seated and is singing into...
Raindogs & Saffire the Uppity Blues Women, national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand in a group grinning at the photographer are Jim Herbert, Gaye Adegbalola, Phil Smith, Mike Roark...
Renee Satterwhite, wearing a silk print shirt, looks down at the neck of a guitar as she plays at the Grand Emporium.
Robert Lockwood Jr., wearing a fedora, listens intently to an unidentified African American woman across the table from him. An unidentified African American man is to Robert's right, facing right, on...
Shemekia Copeland and Ronnie Baker Brooks, one of the national acts at the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise. Ronnie Baker Brooks, wearing a baseball cap with Jimi Hendrix Experience embroidered on the...
