Boston Blues Society presents "Ladies of the Blues 2012"
5-19-2012
Featuring 8 guest stars, backed by Lydia Warren on guitar,
Diane Gately on drums and Sue Goldberg on bass.
DIANE BLUE: Boston's Diane Blue is a strong and soulful vocalist, skillful harmonica player and a crowd pleasing entertainer. Voted "Outstanding Female Singer" in The Blues Audience 2011 Readers' Poll.
GRACIE CURRAN: Gracie has a silky smooth voice with a thick timbre that recalls women singers from a bygone era of great music.
CINDY DALEY: Cindy has been singing and playing the blues, and rock, since the 1980s, backing up Jon Butcher Axis. She was half of Boston's duo act in last year's International Blues Challenge in Memphis.
KIT HOLLIDAY: Kit has been singing professionally for more than half her life, from rock to musical theater to blues and jazz. She was voted outstanding blues female vocalist by the Blues Audience in 2005.
SHIRLEY LEWIS: Boston's "Regal Queen of the Blues," singer-songwriter Shirley Lewis has been bowling over audiences since the age of 4 performing blues, Gospel, jazz and soul. Her superb voice, humor, warmth, and grace, have charmed festival-goers all across the country.
LISA MARIE: Lisa Marie is a versatile singer-songwriter and winner of the 2008 Outstanding Female Singer award from The Blues Audience.
CAROLYN WATERS: A relative newcomer to the stage, her powerful, riveting voice has already gained her a wonderful reputation as a crowd pleaser as she moves effortlessly from folk, gospel, jazz, to the good old fashioned foot stomping blues.
LYDIA WARREN This guitarist/vocalist tours internationally from Brooklyn to Beirut, whipping audiences into a frenzy at each stop. She tours and records as a solo act and with her alt-blues power trio.
Diane Gately on drums and Sue Goldberg on bass.
DIANE BLUE: Boston's Diane Blue is a strong and soulful vocalist, skillful harmonica player and a crowd pleasing entertainer. Voted "Outstanding Female Singer" in The Blues Audience 2011 Readers' Poll.
GRACIE CURRAN: Gracie has a silky smooth voice with a thick timbre that recalls women singers from a bygone era of great music.
CINDY DALEY: Cindy has been singing and playing the blues, and rock, since the 1980s, backing up Jon Butcher Axis. She was half of Boston's duo act in last year's International Blues Challenge in Memphis.
KIT HOLLIDAY: Kit has been singing professionally for more than half her life, from rock to musical theater to blues and jazz. She was voted outstanding blues female vocalist by the Blues Audience in 2005.
SHIRLEY LEWIS: Boston's "Regal Queen of the Blues," singer-songwriter Shirley Lewis has been bowling over audiences since the age of 4 performing blues, Gospel, jazz and soul. Her superb voice, humor, warmth, and grace, have charmed festival-goers all across the country.
LISA MARIE: Lisa Marie is a versatile singer-songwriter and winner of the 2008 Outstanding Female Singer award from The Blues Audience.
CAROLYN WATERS: A relative newcomer to the stage, her powerful, riveting voice has already gained her a wonderful reputation as a crowd pleaser as she moves effortlessly from folk, gospel, jazz, to the good old fashioned foot stomping blues.
LYDIA WARREN This guitarist/vocalist tours internationally from Brooklyn to Beirut, whipping audiences into a frenzy at each stop. She tours and records as a solo act and with her alt-blues power trio.