Pamela Rose

Available On-Demand

originally filmed on MAR 16, 2024

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About This Show

Pamela Rose’s celebrated  Blues Is a Woman blurs the boundaries between concert and theater, using storytelling and music to bring to life the colorful history of the bold and singular women who wrote and popularized the blues. Our ensemble of powerful artists will take you on a journey from the very earliest days of 'trouble' songs—which mothers sang to their children—through the decades in a celebration of blues and blueswomen!

For this special Family Matinee honoring Women’s History Month, vocalist and presenter Pamela Rose assembled a stellar line-up of Bay Area stalwarts alongside emerging young talent, paying homage to the truth-telling women (and men) who carved a place in American music history by bearing their souls. Through this exciting Blues Is a Woman program, Pamela Rose and company take us on a journey back to the most foundational genre in Black American music as we sing, clap our hands, and rejoice.

Setlist & Personnel

Blues is a Woman Pamela Rose
Black Woman trad., additional arr. Pamela Rose
VooDoo Woman Willie Dixon
Up the Country Blues Sippie Wallace
Looking the World Over Memphis Minnie
Didn’t It Rain trad, arr. by Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Love Me Like a Man Chris Smither
Backlash Blues Langston Hughes, Nina Simone
Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues Ida Cox

(Q & A)

Blues is a Mighty River, Remember My Name Pamela Rose, Alberta Hunter