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Betty Crow, Sonny Kenner, and Lionel Hampton at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Betty Crow is speaking to someone that is not visible to the right of the photograph. She stands behind Sonny Kenner who is bent slightly and smiling...

Date Published
January-13-2000
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

Group playing at 18th and Vine

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Myra Taylor is seated in a wheelchair and singing into a microphone with her eyes closed. Sonny Kenner is standing to her left and also singing into a...

Date Published
September-16-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Sonny Kenner at Mill Creek Brewery

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Sonny Kenner, wearing a Fair Isle sweater, sings into a microphone as he plays an electric guitar at Mill Creek Brewery.

Date Published
March-01-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Sonny Kenner at the Gem Theater

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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...

Date Published
January-22-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Sonny Kenner at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000

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Sonny Kenner closes his eyes and smiles as he plays a guitar during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

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

Sonny Kenner, Luqman Hamza, Rusty Tucker, Everette DeVan, Roy Searcy, King Alex, Lawrence Wright, Linda Shell and others at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Blues and jazz musicians Sonny Kenner, Luqman Hamza, Richard Townsend, Rusty Tucker, Everette DeVan, Roy Searcy, King Alex, Lawrence Wright, and Linda...

Date Published
September-18-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection
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  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001

Member of

  • (-) Evie Quarles Collection (7)

Types

  • photographs (7)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (7)
  • Gelatin silver prints (7)
  • Group portraits (4)
  • Portrait photographs (3)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (7)

Subjects

  • Guitarists (7)
  • African American men (6)
  • Blues musicians (5)
  • African American jazz musicians (4)
  • Jazz musicians (4)
  • Blues festivals (2)
  • Jazz singers (2)
  • Music festivals (2)
  • Saxophonists (2)
  • African American women (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Harmonica players (1)
  • Musicians--Labor unions (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Vibraphonists (1)
  • Women, White (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (5)
  • 18th and Vine District (3)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (2)

Subjects, People

  • Crow, Betty (1)
  • DeVan, Everette, 1950- (1)
  • Hampton, Lionel (1)
  • Hamza, Luqman (1)
  • King Alex, 1934-2008 (1)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (1)
  • Nash, Monny (1)
  • Powell, Godfrey (1)
  • Saunders, Eddie (1)
  • Searcy, Roy (1)
  • Shell, Linda (Singer) (1)
  • Taylor, Myra (1)
  • Townsend, Richard (Singer) (1)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (1)
  • Wright, Lawrence (Blues singer) (1)
  • (-) Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (7)

Events

  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2000) (2)
  • Living Blues Party (2000) (1)

Date Published

  • 2000-06-24 (2)
  • 1998-03-01 (1)
  • 1999-09-18 (1)
  • 2000-01-13 (1)
  • 2000-01-22 (1)
  • 2000-09-16 (1)

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