Several musicians will gather at Seekers Church in Takoma on Friday for the Say Sister! Guitar Festival, celebrating women redefining the guitar across jazz, blues, folk, and avant-garde genres.

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -The Treelawn in Cleveland’s Waterloo Arts District is celebrating Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day this weekend with a four-day music and arts festival celebrating ...

Long before her six Grammy nominations and her signature 1973 hit “Midnight at the Oasis,” a young Maria Muldaur was befriended by a pioneering blues singer-songwriter named Victoria Spivey. A ...

A group of highly regarded Bay Area musicians is launching their new ensemble theatrical concert at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley on Thursday, March 30. At the concert, the Blues is a Woman Ensemble ...

Distinction: First all-female group to be inducted. The Hall inducted founding members Florence Ballard, Diana Ross and Mary ...

CHICAGO — Koko Taylor, a sharecropper’s daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet “Queen of the Blues,” has died after complications from surgery. She was 80. Taylor ...

Professional pianist Krista Seddon's Blue Note performance series will return to Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 75 East Ave., at 2 p.m. Sunday. She'll explore Women of the Blues: Bessie Smith, ...