Shamatiyah, of the Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a Panama Jack hat and lots of jewelry, points at the photographer as he...
Shannon Curfman, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks down at the neck of an electric guitar she's playing.
Sharon James, sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand during the Hope House Benefit at the Grand Emporium.
Shawn Cassidy looks over the bell of a trumpet he is playing at the Grand Emporium.
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...
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 of the band, The Holmes Brothers, eyes squeezed closed, wearing a Dashiki, plays an electric bass during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival. There are perspiration drips visible on...
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.
Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, stand side by side looking at the necks of the guitars they are playing. Smokin' Joe looks serious. Bnois...
Smokin' Joe Kubek, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks seriously out as he plays an electric guitar.
Snooky Pryor, one of the national acts at the 1st Annual Acoustic Showcase of the Kansas City Blues Society, from his left, wearing a bowler hat, smiles into a microphone he's holding with his left...
Son Seals, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, wearing a cowboy hat, frowns as he plays an electric guitar.
Son Seals looks out as he plays the guitar during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Sonny Kenner, wearing a Fair Isle sweater, sings into a microphone as he plays an electric guitar at Mill Creek Brewery.
Sonny Kenner, looks down at the neck of the guitar he's playing during the Living Blues Party Gem, Theater. The guitar is scratched and worn. Sonny wears a suit with an open-collar shirt.
Sonny Kenner closes his eyes and smiles as he plays a guitar during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Blues and jazz musicians Sonny Kenner, Luqman Hamza, Richard Townsend, Rusty Tucker, Everette DeVan, Roy Searcy, King Alex, Lawrence Wright, and Linda Shell gather together at noon on the steps of the...
Spoon Wilson, wearing a fedora and a sleeveless tank undershirt, grimaces as he plays a set of drums during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.
Stan Hugeman closes his eyes as he blows into a saxophone by a microphone at the Grand Emporium.
Stan Kessler, hair pulled back in a low ponytail, stands blowing into a trumpet next to a standing Kim Park blowing into a saxophone at the American Heartland Theater. An unidentified drummer and drum...
Stan Kessler and Kim Park taking a breath as they each get ready to blow into a trumpet and a saxophone, respectively at the American Heartland Theater.
Steve "Mr. Microphone" Cox of the blues band, Four Fried Chickens & a Coke, sings into a microphone wearing a fedora and a shiny lame shirt. Sherry "The Chick" Oswald is visible behind Steve blowing...
Steve Mugalian, a member of the band Rod Piazza & Mighty Flyers, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, intently looks to his left towards the photographer as he plays a drum set...
