CELEBRATING THE WOMEN SONGWRITERS FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF JAZZ & BLUES
BLUES IS A WOMAN blurs the boundaries between concert and theater, using storytelling and music to bring to life the bold and singular women who wrote and popularized the blues.
Pamela Rose and her ensemble – featuring saxophonist Kristen Strom, pianist Jennifer Jolly, guitarist Pat Wilder, bassist Ruth Davies and drummer Daria Johnson– celebrate women in the Blues from Ma Rainey to Bonnie Raitt. Live music and theatrical storytelling transport the audience back to the early roots of the America’s most enduring art form and travel through the decades to celebrate the outspoken, audacious women of the blues.
All the musicians onstage sing and perform music treasures, spanning the decades from Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Etta James, Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt.
