Wayne Jackson, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, looks straight ahead as he holds a trumpet high that he blows into.
W.C. Clark, one of the national acts to perform at Blayney's, wearing a derby hat, looks down at the neck of an electric guitar he is playing.
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...
The Wild Women: Mary Moore, Myra Taylor, Millie Edwards, and Geneva Price sit close together and smile at the photographer at the Mutual Musicians Foundation.
The Wilders, one of the national acts to perform at the Grand Emporium, include Ike Shelton playing an acoustic guitar, then Nate Gawron playing a string bass, then Betse Ellis playing a violin, and...
William King smiles at the photographer as he plays a guitar at the Grand Emporium.
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, part of the Muddy Waters Tribute Band, peeks over a cymbal as he plays a drum set at the Carlsen Center in Johnson County Community College.
Willie "Popsy" Dixon, of the band The Holmes Brothers, sings into a microphone during Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.
Willie Cobbs closes his eyes and scrunches his face and forms his left hand into a fist as he sings into a microphone at the Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, KS.
Willie King, wearing a Michael Johnathon WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour ball cap, sits in a lawn chair, leaning his chin on his right hand, and smiles directly at the photographer during the Kansas...
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.
A crowd sits and stands in front of Mutual Musicians Foundation during the Landmark Ceremony: included in the crowd are Betty Crow, standing 2nd from left, Myra Taylor and Yvonne Wilson seated and...
