WHITE SULPHUR SRINGS — The White Sulphur Springs Public Library will host a living history performance portraying blues legend Bessie Smith at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26. Singer and actress Doris Fields ...

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The hangings parted and a great brown woman emerged—she was the size of Fay Templeton in her Weber & Fields days, and she was even garbed similarly, in a rose satin dress, spangled with sequins, which ...

Michael Tilson Thomas will conduct and host a staged presentation of The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in Yiddish Theater, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 5-6, 2011, at 7:30 p.m., with the ...

ENID, Okla. — Residents attending Enid Chautauqua on Friday, June 13, 2025, learned about the trials and tribulations of the “Empress of the Blues.” Scholar Rebecca Marks Jimerson portrayed Bessie ...

The Bessie Smith Cultural Center will present a full month of events this June celebrating African American history, culture and music. "From honoring Negro League baseball legends to uplifting ...

This broadcast opens with a celebration of the music of Bessie Smith, the Empress of the Blues, in honor of her birthday, with new releases from saxophonist Melissa Aldana, vocalists Emma Larsson, ...

Adorned with feathered headpieces, strings of pearls, bright lipstick and custom-made wigs and satin dresses, flecked with jewels and gems, Detroit's finest jazz vocalists — including Veronique ...

Dana Elaine Owens, better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is gearing up to develop her life story into a feature film with Will Smith. On Thursday, HarbourView Equity Partners, founded by ...

Chris Albertson, who as a teenager in Denmark became captivated by blues singer Bessie Smith and decades later produced a widely praised multivolume reissue of her recordings and wrote an equally ...

The Chattanooga Public Library and The Bessie Smith Cultural Center and Chattanooga African American Museum (the Bessie) announce that family passes to the Bessie are now available at all library ...