Join the Croton Free Library for a spectacular musical event: Wild Women of the Blues: The Origins of American Popular Music. Against a backdrop of oppression and segregation in the early 1900’s, musical artists like Ida Cox, Ma Rainey, Alberta Hunter, Billie Holliday, Memphis Minnie and Bessie Smith thrilled crowds throughout America. They laid the down the roots of rock-and-roll and influenced the Jazz, Blues and Rock Icons that would follow: Louis Armstrong, Big Mama Thornton, Bonnie Raitt, Led Zepplin and so many more! Kirsten Thien and Erik Boyd will perform select songs from these trailblazers' 1920s and '30s catalogs, demonstrating their original styles and describing their path to bringing the blues to life and bringing it into the 2000’s with their influence on music 100 years later! Free and open to all!
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