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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

Brenda Walker at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2002

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Brenda Walker, wearing a straw hat, sunglasses, crop top, and denim vest, plays a flute into a microphone during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues...

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

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

Image

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

Cotton Candy at Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Cotton Candy, wearing a dramatic hat and looking directly at the photographer, sings into a microphone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

Date Published
July-18-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Cotton Candy at Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2006

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Cotton Candy Washington looks to her left to sing into the microphone as she plays a keyboard during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival. An...

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

Diunna Greenleaf at Knuckleheads

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Diunna Greenleaf grins as she sings into a microphone held in her right hand during the Box Car Blues Festival at Knuckleheads Saloon.

Date Published
August-19-2006
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Ida McBeth at Rhythm & Ribs

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Ida McBeth smiles as she holds a microphone to her mouth at Rhythm and Ribs 18th & Vine Jazz Fest. She is seated and wearing a floral dress.

Date Published
June-19-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Ida McBeth at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005

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Ida McBeth, wearing a bejeweled pillbox hat, throws her head back and laughs as she stands on stage and holds a certificate which states "Unified...

Date Published
June-25-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Ida McBeth at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2005

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Ida McBeth looks coyly to her right as she sings into a microphone during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-25-2005
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Irma Thomas at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Irma Thomas, wearing a sundress, smiles up and to her left as she holds a microphone in her right hand and lifts her left elbow even with her shoulder...

Date Published
July-22-2001
Member of
Evie Quarles 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

Koko Taylor at Rhythm & Ribs

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Koko Taylor, from her right side, scrunches her face as she sings into a microphone she holds in her right hand during Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival at...

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

Koko Taylor at the 2001 Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Koko Taylor, neck and chest wet with perspiration, closes her eyes and lifts her head to her right, as she smiles and sings into a microphone she is...

Date Published
July-21-2001
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

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, 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 at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Myra Taylor sings into a microphone she holds in her left hand during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

Date Published
July-18-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Myra Taylor at the Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival 2000

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Myra Taylor sings into a microphone she holds in her right hand during the Kansas City, Kansas Street Blues Festival.

Date Published
June-24-2000
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

Peggy Scott Adams at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Peggy Scott Adams, wearing an Asian inspired blouse, stands facing the photographer, mouth wide open, with the microphone held low by her right side...

Date Published
July-18-1998
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Sista Monica at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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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...

Date Published
July-18-1998
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
  • Clear selected
  • African American women
  • Music festivals

Member of

  • Evie Quarles Collection (24)

Types

  • photographs (24)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (24)
  • Gelatin silver prints (24)
  • Portrait photographs (14)
  • Group portraits (10)

Time Periods

  • 2001-2010 (17)
  • 1991-2000 (7)

Subjects

  • Blues festivals (24)
  • Blues musicians (14)
  • Singers (13)
  • Jazz festivals (9)
  • African American jazz musicians (7)
  • Jazz musicians (7)
  • African American men (6)
  • Jazz singers (6)
  • Men, White (6)
  • Guitarists (5)
  • Promoters (4)
  • Women, White (3)
  • Children (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Flute players (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Harmonica players (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Music--Awards (1)
  • Music audiences (1)
  • Musicians' spouses (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Plaques, plaquettes (1)
  • Radio broadcasters (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Women dancers (1)
  • (-) African American women (24)
  • (-) Music festivals (24)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Kan.) (14)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (10)
  • 18th and Vine District (2)

Subjects, People

  • Taylor, Myra (5)
  • McKeithen, Marvine (4)
  • McBeth, Ida (3)
  • Bellamy, D. C., 1949- (2)
  • Clay, Otis, 1942-2016 (2)
  • Dare, Lou (2)
  • Taylor, Koko (2)
  • Washington, Cotton Candy, 1931-2007 (2)
  • Baker, Tom Trashmouth (1)
  • Edwards, Millie (1)
  • Fitzgerald, Michael D. (1)
  • Gilbert, Millage (1)
  • Gilley, Dawayne (1)
  • Greenleaf, Diunna (1)
  • Hodge, Aaron (1)
  • Hopkins, Grant Sheffield (Groovy Grant) (1)
  • Kassem, Chad (1)
  • Kassem, Lydia (1)
  • Kovacs, Mike (1)
  • Lespes, Lo (1)
  • Little Hatch, 1921-2003 (1)
  • Maness, Bill (Keyboard player) (1)
  • Mayberry, Joni (1)
  • Naber, Roger (1)
  • Price, Geneva (1)
  • Rush, Bobby (1)
  • Saint Charles (Musician) (1)
  • Scott-Adams, Peggy, 1948- (1)
  • Sista Monica (1)
  • Thomas, Irma (1)
  • Tucker, Lori (1)
  • Walker, Brenda (Flute player) (1)
  • Williams, Blanche Fouse (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)
  • Wilson, James Spoon (1)

Events

  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2002) (4)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (1998) (3)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2005) (3)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2001) (2)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2000) (2)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2006) (2)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2008) (2)
  • Rhythm & Ribs Jazz Festival (2005 : Kansas City, Mo.) (2)
  • Box Car Blues Festival (2006 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (1999) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2000) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2001) (1)

Date Published

  • 2002-06-29 (4)
  • 1998-07-18 (3)
  • 2000-06-24 (2)
  • 2005-06-25 (2)
  • 2006-06-25 (2)
  • 2008-06-28 (2)
  • 1999-07-18 (1)
  • 2000-07-21 (1)
  • 2001-06-23 (1)
  • 2001-07-21 (1)
  • 2001-07-22 (1)
  • 2005-06-18 (1)
  • 2005-06-19 (1)
  • 2005-06-24 (1)
  • 2006-08-19 (1)

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