Blues music is a soulful genre. It has roots deeply embedded in the Black experience. Blues has long been a powerful expression of the struggles, joys and resilience of Black life in America.

Ma Rainey is best known, but Ida Cox, Cora Mae Bryant, Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins and Precious Bryant left essential music. From left to right: Ma Rainey, Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, Ida Cox, Precious ...

– The ladies sing the blues and jazz this summer in Women & Blues, two exhibitions that prominently feature women from these American musical genres. Amalia Amaki: Boxes, Buttons and the Blues, ...

CLEVELAND — Cleveland's Waterloo Arts District will come alive with the sounds of blues music next weekend as the Women in Blues Music Festival takes over The Treelawn music hall for four days of ...

Workin' on the building : roots and influences / Samuel Charters -- Goin' up the country : blues in Texas and the deep South / David Evans -- Country girls, classic blues, and vaudeville voices : ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. I have compiled a subjective, non-exhaustive list of 50 Black ...

Known as the “Queen of Gospel,” Mahalia Jackson needs no introduction. Countless award-winning gospel, blues, soul and jazz singers cite her as one of their key influences. Over the course of her ...

Bay Area playwright, vocalist and educator Pamela Rose is thrilled to be bringing her acclaimed musical "Blues Is a Woman" to San Francisco's Peninsula for the first time. About a decade ago, she had ...

There’s a difference between a group of musicians performing together and one that becomes a “band.” Blue Velvet Atlanta is a band. Made up of Sandra Senn (founder and drummer), Minda Scrogan (lead ...