FOR RELEASE: 2025 Women in Blues Showcase
Where: Alfred's on Beale, Memphis Tn.
When: 11:30am-4:00pm, Thursday, January 9th during International Blues Challenge week 2025.

National Women in Blues and Endless Blues Records present the 2025 WiB Showcase, thanks in large part to the International Blues Challenge and The Blues Foundation. This 13th edition of the WiB Showcase takes place at Alfred’s on Beale and BB King Blvd, January 9th from 11:30am - 4:00pm and is FREE to the public, donations suggested. This event is a fundraiser for the Blues Foundation General Fund. Our mission is to level the field for female blues artists and musicians and we are excited to be showcasing female blues artists in Memphis!

We are delighted to announce this years showcase MC and opening performer, the versatile Carly Harvey, who according to DC Music Review, "Carly is grace, confidence, originality, and the right amount of sexy swagger all at once. She commands the stage with her voice and presence and draws you in intensely.” She was proclaimed DC's Queen of the Blues in 2016 by Dr. Nick Johnson of WPFW Radio.

Our showcase also includes performing artists, Andrea Marr, Lexie Blue, Youth Act LilG, Val Starr, Keenan Copple & Melly Frances of @100Lb Housecat, Melika Miller & Southern Explosion, Lynnette Barber & Will Ellis Duo, Cat Wells, Michele Curcio and Wolfden, Gina McCann and the Gina and Johnny Band, Hanna PK, and Mandi Strachota. This years All Female Housebound Director is Meg Williams on guitar with Susan Williams on bass and Diane Rudolph on drums!

This year's showcase is dedicated in Memoriam to Lori Graboyes. We may have lost her but we will never forget her support and service to the organization and to all the blues artists she loved.

The entire National Women in Blues Board, Endless Blues Records and all the WiB volunteers and sponsors are excited for this years line up. Everyone’s talking about all the new faces performing and a few very familiar ones with talent across the board. It is exciting to be part of the International Blues Challenge week of events. We are honored the Blues Foundation is so supportive of the women in this music world we love, called the Blues!

Our event is free, but all donations go to support The Blues Foundation! Sponsored by: Endless Blues Records & Mick Kolassa, Terri Robbins, Marie Wilson, Nancy "Patron Queen" Gaylord, Mary Certain, Memphis Blues Society and Andrea Zucker Photography. Showcase at Alfred's on Beale and BB King, January 9th 2025 from 11:30am-4:00pm. For a full press release with artists bio’s, please send a request to nationalwomeninbluesinc@gmail.com and stay tuned for the press on our livestreams!

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