Ladies In The Blues

About this event

Celebrate the power of women in the history of the blues with ‘Ladies in the Blues’ music theatre show, from the gospel roots of the 1920s, through vaudeville & jazz, to the blues rock of the 60s & 70s.

It's a women's journey through song with iconic visual backdrops of all those great female trailblazers - Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Ma Rainey, Etta James, Sr Rosetta Tharpe, Bessie Smith, Janice Joplin and many more. This all-Irish cast comprises four diverse female singers and a crackin’ band of blues sidemen.

Ladies in the Blues’ journey began in 2015 as a pub gig and has since premiered to SOLD-OUT audiences in the Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow for two nights in March 2017. The show went back to sell out again in February 2018. After critical acclaim and the hit of Cork Jazz Festival, the ladies recently returned to Cork to play the Everyman Palace. The tour has also taken in the Townhall Theatre Galway, Theatre Royal Waterford, Pavilion Dun Laoghaire, Civic Tallaght, Watergate Kilkenny and Glor in Ennis, receiving standing ovations everywhere it goes.

More Information at http://www.ladiesintheblues.com/