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Blind Boys of Alabama at Rhythm & Ribs

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Blind Boys of Alabama, which includes Clarence Fountain and Jimmy Lee Carter, wearing sunglasses and matching suits, walk across stage with a hand on...

Date Published
June-18-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Blue 88 at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

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Blue 88 Band including Mark and Sue Corbett, smile directly at the photographer as they stand on stage during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues...

Date Published
June-23-2006
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Blue River Ordnance at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2004

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Blue River Ordinance perform on stage at the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-25-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bob Margolin and Charlie Musselwhite at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Bob Margolin sits and sings into a microphone, mouth wide open, while he plays a microphoned slide dobro guitar. Charlie Musselwhite is seated to Bob...

Date Published
July-19-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Bobby Rush and Lo Lespes at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005

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Bobby Rush, sings into a microphone as Lo Lespes dances during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival, The audience is visible behind Lo.

Date Published
June-24-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Blanche Williams and Mike Fitzgerald at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Festival

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams, wearing a fedora and holding a violin and bow in his left hand, waves as Mike Fitzgerald hands him the Jazz Ambassador...

Date Published
July-21-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Eddie Saunders and Sonny Kenner at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000

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Eddie Saunders, holding his saxophone on his lap and Sonny Kenner playing a guitar, put their heads together and smile while performing at the Kansas...

Date Published
June-24-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Henry Butler, Jay McShann, Bobby Watson, Roger Naber, Claude Fiddler Williams, and Marianne at the 2000 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Henry Butler, Jay McShann, Bobby Watson, Roger Naber, Claude Fiddler Williams, and Marianne sit and talk during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz...

Date Published
July-20-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Henry Townsend at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

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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...

Date Published
June-25-2006
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Jay McShann at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2004

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Jay McShann, left side profile, wearing a ball cap as he sits at a baby grand piano playing for an audience visible behind him during the Kansas City...

Date Published
June-26-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Jay McShann at the KCK Street Blues Festival

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The left side of Jay McShann smiling straight ahead as he sits at a piano wearing a ball cap. A large crowd is behind him smiling and clapping at the...

Date Published
June-26-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (1993)

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A collage of three photographs capturing scenes from the 1993 Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival held on the Liberty Memorial north lawn in front of...

Date Published
July-24-1993
July-25-1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

King of the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002

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Spoon Wilson and D.C. Bellamy, standing wearing beefeater costumes, and an unidentified African American woman, have crowned Little Hatch the king...

Date Published
June-29-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Little Hatch, King of the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002

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Provine "Little" Hatch close-up photograph as the king of the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. Little Hatch wears a crown and cape as he...

Date Published
June-29-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Lou Dare, Saint Charles, and Myra Taylor at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2008

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Lou Dare and Saint Charles, dressed in medieval clothing, stand behind Myra Taylor, also wearing medieval clothing and a crown, in a wheelchair during...

Date Published
June-28-2008
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Magic Slim and June Bug at Knuckleheads

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Magic Slim, wearing a cowboy hat and a t-shirt of himself and June Bug, puts his arm around "June Bug" John Stuerke who is wearing the same t-shirt...

Date Published
August-20-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Marvine McKeithen at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000

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Marvine McKeithen smiles from under an umbrella she's holding in her left hand as she sits beside an unidentified child behind a table laden with t...

Date Published
June-24-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Marvine McKeithen, Otis Clay, Roger Naber, Dawayne Gilley at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002

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Marvine McKeithen, Otis Clay, Roger Naber, Dawayne Gilley stand on the street for a photograph during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-29-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Mike Kovacs, Marvine McKeithen, Lou Dare, Tom Baker, Otis Clay, DC Bellamy, Groovie Grant, and Aaron Hodge at the Street Blues Festival 2002

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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...

Date Published
June-29-2002
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Millage Gilbert at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2004

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Millage Gilbert, dressed as a king, with two unidentified white women in vintage clothing on each arm, and a crowd of people around them for the...

Date Published
June-26-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Millage Gilbert, Joni Mayberry, and Marvine McKeithen at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2001

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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...

Date Published
June-23-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor, Lydia, Chad and Jasmin Kassem at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2008

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Lydia Kassem stands behind as Chad Kassem kneels beside, holding Jasmin Kassem, Myra Taylor all dressed up and sitting in a wheelchair during the...

Date Published
June-28-2008
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Scamps at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Fest 2004

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The Scamps on stage at the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Fest in 2004. Lucky Wesley is standing on the right side of a stage, smiling, wearing a...

Date Published
June-04-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Scamps at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2004

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The Scamps, on stage, are presented with plaques and an unidentified white woman gives them a cake during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues...

Date Published
June-26-2004
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Wild Women and Bill Maness at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

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The Wild Women including Lori Tucker, Geneva Price, Millie Edwards, and Myra Taylor, sit on stage in chairs singing into microphones under posters of...

Date Published
June-25-2006
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection
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  • Group portraits
  • Blues festivals

Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (24)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (25)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (25)
  • Gelatin silver prints (25)
  • Portrait photographs (1)
  • Publicity photographs (1)
  • (-) Group portraits (25)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (19)
  • 1991-2000 (6)

Subjects

  • Music festivals (22)
  • African American men (17)
  • Blues musicians (16)
  • African American women (10)
  • Guitarists (10)
  • Men, White (10)
  • Singers (10)
  • Women, White (7)
  • African American jazz musicians (6)
  • Jazz musicians (6)
  • Jazz festivals (5)
  • Promoters (5)
  • Harmonica players (4)
  • Pianists (4)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Fiddlers (2)
  • Jazz singers (2)
  • Keyboard players (2)
  • Music audiences (2)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (2)
  • Violinists (2)
  • Children (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • City children--Recreation (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Double bassists (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Fountains (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Music--Awards (1)
  • Music--Awards--Kansas (1)
  • Musicians' spouses (1)
  • Radio broadcasters (1)
  • Street photography (1)
  • Swimming (1)
  • Women dancers (1)
  • (-) Blues festivals (25)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Kan.) (19)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (6)
  • 18th and Vine District (1)

Subjects, People

  • McKeithen, Marvine (4)
  • McShann, Jay (3)
  • Taylor, Myra (3)
  • Bellamy, D. C., 1949- (2)
  • Clay, Otis, 1942-2016 (2)
  • Dare, Lou (2)
  • Little Hatch, 1921-2003 (2)
  • Naber, Roger (2)
  • Saunders, Eddie (2)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (2)
  • Baker, Tom Trashmouth (1)
  • Britain, Rocky (1)
  • Butler, Henry (Pianist) (1)
  • Carter, Jimmy Lee (1)
  • Corbett, Mark (1)
  • Corbett, Sue (Guitarist) (1)
  • Edwards, Millie (1)
  • Fitzgerald, Michael D. (1)
  • Fountain, Clarence (1)
  • Gilbert, Millage (1)
  • Gilley, Dawayne (1)
  • Hodge, Aaron (1)
  • Hopkins, Grant Sheffield (Groovy Grant) (1)
  • Jackson, Arthur, 1920-2006 (1)
  • Jones, Wallace (Drummer) (1)
  • Kassem, Chad (1)
  • Kassem, Lydia (1)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (1)
  • Knox, Marquise (1)
  • Kovacs, Mike (1)
  • Lespes, Lo (1)
  • Magic Slim (Musician) (1)
  • Maness, Bill (Keyboard player) (1)
  • Margolin, Bob (1)
  • Massingale, Rudy (1)
  • Mayberry, Joni (1)
  • McShann, Marianne (1)
  • Musselwhite, Charlie (1)
  • Price, Geneva (1)
  • Rush, Bobby (1)
  • Saint Charles (Musician) (1)
  • Stuerke, John (1)
  • Townsend, Henry (1)
  • Tucker, Lori (1)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (1)
  • Watson, Bobby, 1953- (1)
  • Wesley, Lucky (1)
  • Williams, Blanche Fouse (1)
  • Wilson, James Spoon (1)

Events

  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2004) (6)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2002) (4)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2006) (3)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2000) (2)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2000) (2)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2008) (2)
  • Box Car Blues Festival (2005 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues & Jazz Festival (1993) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (1998) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2001) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2005) (1)
  • Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival (2005 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 2002-06-29 (4)
  • 2004-06-26 (4)
  • 2000-06-24 (2)
  • 2006-06-25 (2)
  • 2008-06-28 (2)
  • 1993-07-24 (1)
  • 1993-07-25 (1)
  • 1998-07-19 (1)
  • 2000-07-20 (1)
  • 2000-07-21 (1)
  • 2001-06-23 (1)
  • 2004-06-04 (1)
  • 2004-06-25 (1)
  • 2005-06-18 (1)
  • 2005-06-24 (1)
  • 2005-08-20 (1)
  • 2006-06-23 (1)

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