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Originally published in The Bluesletter,
publication of the Washington Blues Society, in May 1992
as part of their Folklife Festival Schedule insert.
Women in the Blues Tradition
Jessie Mae Hemphill, Etta Baker, Del Rey and Laurette Langille Saturday night in
the Opera House - a great evening of music and stories from the woman's point of
view. A Panel Concert is scheduled for Sunday afternoon at 1:30pm on the Bagley
wright Lawn North, featuring Jessie Mae Hemphill, Etta Baker, Del Rey, Edmonia
Jarrett, Kathy Hart and Sheila Wilsoxson with audience participation encouraged
and moderated by broadcast/writer Roberta Penn.
Etta Baker represents the North Carolina Piedmont style of fingerpicking. In 1991
she received a National Endowment for the Arts Ethnic Heritage Award. Her recent
Rounder Records release One Dime Blues should be available at the music booth.
Jessie Mae Hemphill lives in Senatobia, Mississippi and represents the harder,
percussive delta sound.
Del Rey is a veteran Folklife performer and comes from the Santa Cruz area. She's
commited her performances and writing to the styles of great blueswoman who have
passed on. Her well researched articles are featured in Blues Review Quarterly.
Laurette Langille comes from the Bellingham Bay area and has a vocal and playing
style that warrants every one of the complimentary quotes in her press kit (some of
them came from our own WBS newsletter!)
Explore issues of gender, age, race as well as the contrasting shades of the blues that
these women represent. These shows are made possible because of WBS and
Folklife volunteers and with some funding from the King County Arts Commission,
the Seattle Arts Commission and private donore (whose contributions arre still being
gratefully accepted).
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