Grand Emporium Collection

Bel Airs, a blues-rock band from Columbia, Missouri comprised of three white men, perform on the stage of the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri with Mark Wenner, harmonica player and singer...

Blues singer Big John Dickerson sitting on a stool among the standing members of the band Blue Chamber, comprised of five white men and one African American man. Printed in the margin below the...

A split photograph of Mike Dillon, funk and rock percussionist, vibraphonist and drummer, on the left side, and Kim Pruitt, funk and rock singer, on the right side; both in close-up photographs. Mike...

Billy Lee Riley and the Original Little Green Men, a rockabilly band comprised of four white men, grin as they sit, stand or crouch in a corner. One band member sits on a bass drum case. Another rests...

Buckwheat Zydeco, zydeco accordion player and singer, plays an accordion and sings into a microphone on a stage with five other African American zydeco instrumentalists or an electric bass guitar, a...

Blues singer Cotton Candy sits in the center of four unidentified white men, all wearing fedora hats. The men sit on the chair's arm rests and on the floor in front of the chair.

Cotton Candy & So Many Men, a blues band from Kansas City comprised of one African American woman, one African American man, and four white men, sit on or in front of a tile wall in front of a...

Cotton Candy and So Many Men, is a blues ensemble comprised of one African American woman, six white men, and one African American man. Vocalist Cotton Candy sits between a drummer and a guitarist on...

Cotton Candy and So Many Men, is a blues ensemble comprised of one African American woman, six white men, and one African American man. Vocalist Cotton Candy sits between a drummer and a guitarist on...

Darrell Nulisch, blues harmonica player and singer, stands center stage at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri and lifts his left hand toward the ceiling and holds a microphone to his mouth...

Don Walser, country music singer, yodeler, and guitar player, grins at the camera as he rests his hands on the body of an acoustic guitar that is held by a strap around his neck. He wears a tall light...

Vocalist Ed Scheer leans his head back with his arm outstretched as he holds a vintage microphone to his mouth with his right hand and opens his mouth to sing. Printed in the margin below the...

Eddie Shaw, Chicago blues saxophone player and singer, performs on the Grand Emporium stage in Kansas City, Missouri with two unidentified African American men; one playing electric guitar and one...

Blues guitar player and vocalist Fenton Robinson stands center stage in front of the drum set as he and a band of three African American men play on the stage at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City...

Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, a funk, blues, and rhythm and blues vocal group of four African American men, who stand and sing at microphones at the edge of the stage at the Grand Emporium in...

Bukka Allen, Chris White, Ian Moore, and Michael Villegas sit together and look seriously at the camera. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Ian Moore. Capricorn, 2205 State Street, Nashville...

Saxophonist John Firmin, of the Johnny Nocturne Band, squats behind vocalist Kim Nalley who sits in front of John holding his saxophone but looking back over her shoulder at John as he holds the...

The Johnny Nocturne Band, a blues band comprised of seven white men and one African American man, with blues vocalist Brenda Boykin, stand in front of a rock wall with a projection screen in the...

Blues vocalist Keri Leigh leans back a bit as the wind blows her hair and the fringe on her light-colored jacket. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Keri Leigh & the Blue Devils. Waldoxy...

Reggae vocalist Michael E. Johnson (left) looks back over his right shoulder to look at the camera as he wears a ball cap backwards on his head. His back is to pianist and keyboardist Stan Hoffman. He...

Kim Lenz and the Jaguars, a rockabilly band comprised of one white woman and three white men, stand on stage playing their instruments and Kim also sings into a microphone. Printed in the margin below...

Blues singer Lawrence Wright sits in the middle of The Outlets, comprised of three white men, and all smile at the camera. All wear dark business suits. Printed on the top left-hand corner of the...

Linda Shell, blues singer, stands center stage singing into a microphone, and Ron Thompson, guitarist, closes his eyes as he plays guitar to the right, with two other unidentified band members: a...

Little Hatch, an African American blues harmonica player and singer, smiles and claps behind Roger Naber, the owner who is speaking into the microphone at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri...

Blues guitarist and vocalist Luther Guitar Jr. Johnson closes his eyes as he plays a guitar on stage with an unidentified band of four white men at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri. A sign...