Date/Time
Date(s) – 8 Feb 2020
7:30 PM – 11:30 PM
Location
Whitwell Community Centre
Category(ies)
office | Whitwell Community CentresThe “Empress of the Blues”, Bessie Smith is given the royal treatment in this dedication into 1920’s and 1930’s prohibition-era blues and jazz. Widely agreed to be the greatest female blues singer ever, Smith lived fast, drank hard and died young in a car crash in 1937, aged 43.
Julia Titus‘ rich vocals – teamed with a live band, The Pigfoot Band, – document Smith’s life, charting her rise from a one-room shack in Blue Goose Hollow, Tennessee, to becoming the highest paid black entertainer of that time; with a repertoire including Smith’s classics, plus the music of contemporaries like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.
‘…it’s safe to say that an evening with Ma Bessie & The Pig Foot Band proves that jazz is good for the soul.’ Get Reading
Tickets: £9 advance or £10 on the door.
Available from Whitwell Community Centre, telephone 01909 723490 to reserve.
Organised by Whitwell Forward in conjunction with Live & Local.