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.
Dennis Binder, wearing a fedora, looks to his right, as he sits on stage and plays a keyboard on stage during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
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...
Hank Walther, of the band Roomful of Blues, one to the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a fedora, leans over a keyboard he is playing and looks seriously at his hands on the...
Henry Townsend, wearing a bowler hat, suit and striped shoes, sits and looks down at a keyboard he is playing during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. Marquise Knox stands on stage behind...
Honey Piazza, a member of the band, Mighty Flyers, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks up over her right shoulder as she sits and plays a keyboard. A guitar neck and a...
Jeff Lucas, wearing a flat cap backwards, looks down at a keyboard he is playing at Roadhouse Ruby's South.
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.
Marcia Ball, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, holds a plastic alligator between her hands as she looks down to her right and smiles.
Mike Finnigan, one of the national acts to perform at the Beaumont Club, from his left side, sings into a microphone and plays a keyboard. Other keyboards are visible behind him.
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.
Mike Roark of the blues band, Rain Dogs, looks intensely at the photographer over his left shoulder as he sits and plays a piano.
Myra Taylor seated and Bill Maness, Geneva Price, Millie Edwards and Mary Moore standing beside Myra all singing into two microphones at the Myra Taylor Park Gate Dedication, 18th & Woodland.
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...
Rod Piazza, wearing sunglasses, sits to the right of Evie Quarles and Miss Honey Piazza sits to Evie's left. All three are smiling at the camera.
Wendell Holmes of the band, The Holmes Brothers, closes his eyes and grimaces as he sings, mouth wide open, into a microphone, and plays a keyboard during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
The Wild Women: Myra Taylor, Lori Tucker, and Millie Edwards with Bill Maness; stand around a seated Wild Woman, Geneva Price, as they all smile directly at the photographer.
The Wild Women including Lori Tucker, Geneva Price, Millie Edwards, and Myra Taylor, sit on stage in chairs singing into microphones under posters of festival kings while Bill Maness plays a keyboard...
