WOMEN WHO PLAY BLUES HARMONICA
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 LADY A has made a place on the Florida blues map from the panhandle
to Key West with her strong, earthy vocals and harmonica solos. She has worked
with K.C and The Sunshine Band as well as many other touring and recording pros.
She also hosted a popular radio show in the Florida Keys.
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 CHERYL ARENA is a singer/songwriter/harp player who grew up in the
Boston, Massachusetts area. She has been playing harmonica since 1987. By 1989
she had started and hosted her own blues jam, and by 1994 she was touring the East Coast and
portions of the Mid-South. In 2005 Cheryl decided to move to Dallas, Texas,
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 PEARL
BAILES harmonica diva in the nation's capitol received her first
harmonica as a birthday gift, and soon found herself unable to go anywhere
without it. Her emphatic playing adds an antic energy to any performance. When
not playing with the Capitol Hillbillies, she can be found teaching
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 KAT BALOUN grew
up in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her mother was a classical pianist & organist, and she
directed the church choir in which Kat and her father sang. Her mother started
her on the piano at 5 and at 7 she learned the violin. Then at 13 she picked up
the harmonica. During her teens and twenties she played only occasionally. but
in 1991, she met several musicians while living in San Francisco. They inspired
her to start playing the harmonica again. In 1994 she moved to Berlin and put a
band together and she has lived there ever since.
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 MARIANA BARSATO is
a member of the South American women's harmonica group, Mulheres Gaitistas.
She lives in Argentina.
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 INGRID BERRY is the daughter of Chuck Berry and has been performing with him
and as a solo artist for many years. She played herself in the 1987 movie,
Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll!
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 CHRISTELLE BERTHON was unknown to much of the blues world until recently, but she's a star on the internet! Christelle is a
classically trained musician who found the harmonica when she was 24 and it
changed her life. She has yet to make an album, but you can find many of her
videos on line. Her fluid, beautiful style won her second place at the World
Harmonica Championships in 2009.
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 BIG NANCY
(Wertheim-Swarbrick) a hometown gal from New
Jersey, leads her band, Supreme Court.
Nancy was
born in Somerville, New Jersey and raised in nearby Green Brook. Her love of
music was handed down to her by her father, an avid fan and player of
Dixieland music. Much of her love of Blues and Gospel chord patterns comes from
recordings, old movies, and cartoons. Nancy became enamored with the Blues Harp
while watching a Woody Guthrie documentary featuring Sonny Terry.
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JENNY BOHMAN was considered to be one of Sweden's best blues players.
With her
band, Blue Beans, Jenny played at many festivals and won two of the top Swedish blues awards.
Jenny passed away after a long battle with cancer in November, 2010.
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 GRACE
BRIM was known as the "Queen of the Harmonica." She performed,
toured and recorded with her husband, John Brim. His recording of "Strange Man"
in 1950 was one of the first recordings to feature a woman on harmonica.
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 SUNNY
BRYAN is
from Annapolis, Maryland, where she plays in the Sunny Isle Blues Band. "She sings and plays some
mean blues harp and is a very cool lady." Sunny has been playing in the
Washington D.C. area for some years with guitarist Mark Ingino.
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 STACIE
COLLINS is called a "harmonica blowin’ hell-cat." Stacie is
blazing a trail traveled by few women. Sporting a hard-core honky-tonk wail
while backed by a slam-bang rock 'n' roll band, she weds Stones fried
rock-n-roll, gut bucket blues and vintage honky-tonk. Based in Nashville, TN,
she tours the US, Scandinavia and Europe regularly and has even spawned a
Japanese tribute band!
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 MARIA COYOTE lives
in Sweden where she pursues many interests. She is an activist, engaged in
many causes to protect the earth and its species. Maria has an incredible
nine-octave voice range--certainly a world record. She likes the real roots
blues. more |
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 GENEVIÈVE
DARTEVELLE is Belgiums only female harmonica player. She lives
in Brussels and plays with numerous blues groups including; Bluesdealers
Deluxe, The Excellos, Hobo Jungle, and others. She plays many festivals and is a
huge fan of American roots music. more |
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 KAZ
DELLA ROSA is from Melbourne, Australia where she has
been playing harmonica for nineteen years. She was a founding member of the
band, Mojos, with Fiona Boyes. She has won many awards for her
playing and was nominated "Harmonica Player of the Year" at the Goulburn
Festival. more | ||
| DANA DIXON Fronted by singer/harmonica player Dana Dixon the band plays a mixture of authentic Texas, Chicago and west coast blues plus superb original numbers. Dana is regarded as one the the best female blues harmonica players in the world by many "who's who" harmonica websites and forums. After Blues legend Lazy Lester heard Dana Dixon play harmonica for the first time he remarked 'That girl is a wizard on that harmonica'.more | ||
| EILEEN DORSEY played harmonica with her own professional harmonica group, The Harmonica Star Revue, for over 25 years. She continues to teach and play chord, chromatic, diatonic and bass harmonicas. She has made three CDs. more | ||
| KARIN ELIZABET plays harmonica in the band, Blue Dawgs. | <||
 NITA ERICKSON plays harmonica and sings with the band Modoogus in
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 YVONNE FIMBRES is a well known Marilyn Monroe impersonator, singer, actress, pin-up model and harmonica player in Northern California. She is also known as "Hotlips Harmonica." GO TO HER MYSPACE PAGE |
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 KATE
FREEMAN is part of the duo Wildsang, two musicians who "sound
like a hell of a lot more!" Kate plays harmonica with her guitarist partner
Hillary Kay, who is a grand-niece of jazz legend Joe "King" Oliver. Formerly
from New Mexico, now residing in Northern California, Wildsang offers contemporary
lyrics with down home acoustic sounds. more |
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 JILL FROMEWICK plays in the group, Grit Pixies, home based in Asheville, North Carolina. MORE WOMEN IN BLUES |
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 GENEVA
RED grew up just outside of Chicago. She acted as a child in her
parents' acting troupe and was a seasoned performer by her teens. She is one of
only a few harmonica players who front their own band and tours extensively all over
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| BOBBI GIORDANO lives in Florida and plays on the East coast. She designs and builds harmonicas. more | ||
 MARLA
GLEN is a well known singer, songwriter, and harmonica player.
She grew up on the South Side of Chicago, the daughter of a blues guitarist. Her
mother was friends with B.B. King. Marla was given a toy harmonica as a child
and she was just eleven when she wrote her first song, "Repertoire," a
title that has won three gold records and one platinum. Since 1998, Marla has
made her home in Heilbronn, Germany.
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 DEEJAY GOSPER
is a songstress and Australia's Queen of the Blues Harp. From Canberra, she
roams down under, singing and playing blues and jazz. Her distinctive harmonica
style has developed over the years. Her influences have included Sonny Terry,
Jim Conway and Charlie Musselwhite. These days she doesn't try to sound like
anyone else--she just plays.
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TRINA HAMLIN grew
up in the Midwest, earned a degree in music from Berklee College and graduated
to the New York City club scene. She has played at the Newport Jazz Festival and
produced five albums of her own music. more DOWNLOAD "ONE GOOD REASON" |
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 TIFFANY HARP Tiffany Harp is a traditional American Blues Harmonicaplayer. She was born in Southern Brazil, Itajai, Santa Catarina. She started playing harmonica at the age of 16. A naturally gifted Harmonica Player, she is self-taught, listening to recordings of Blues Players, and has been playing professionally since 2003 and with surprising development, drawing attention to her technical ability and strong footprints of mastery reminiscent of the 1950's and 1960's recordings of Chessand Checker Records (something rare and refreshing today). She has gained popularity worldwide having many loyal fans.
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LINDY HARPER
is known as the "Kiwi Blues Queen". She is from New Zealand and has been playing
guitar, harmonica and keyboards since she was 5 years old. She played with
Stevie Ray Vaughan on a New Zealand TV
commercial
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 JESSE MAE HEMPHILL grew up in a musical family in Mississippi.
She took up the guitar at the age of eight and moved on to other instruments including the
harmonica, drums, tambourine, fife, flute, acoustic and electric guitar, trombone, saxophone, diddley
bow, Jews harp, organ & piano. She won several Handy Awards and is an
American blues legend.
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 KATE HENSHAW lives in Australia and plays in the band Lyrebird. She also acts and plays keyboards, flute, drums, piano, guitar, bass guitar, harmonica, and oboe. more |
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 LOUISE HOFFSTEN
is a gutsy, hard rocking singer and harmonica player who
is a longstanding popular star in her native Sweden--so popular they put her on
a stamp!
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 LYNN
ANN HYDE With her partner, Stu Kinzel, Lynn Ann Hyde prowls the
Northwest, laying down solid blues harp. Lynn Ann confirms Portland's claim to
harmonica fame. She was inspired by another Portland harmonica player, the late Paul deLay. She heard him play and asked him if he could teach her to play. He said,
"I dunno--ya got twenty bucks?" more |
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 STACY JONES
was born and raised in Seattle.
She began playing the piano at four years old. At seven she picked up the
guitar and at eight her father started bringing her up on stage to sing with his
band -- she hasn't been able to stay away from the stage since. Stacy was
introduced to the blues at age 14. At sixteen she started learning how to rip on
the harmonica. more |
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TRACY K Tracy K's talents boast seven music  awards (including harmonica player of the year), three releases, several guest recordings and highlights that include being the first female in the Toronto Blues Society's Harmonica Workshop; performing at their prestigious Women's Blues Revue; writing a song for a movie; writing a song for CBC's "Canada Reads, Ontario Rocks"; opening for harmonica legend James Cotton and songster Ramblin' Jack Elliot, and sharing a playbill with her first female blues influence Koko Taylor. On tour she's been known to level the joint with her Joplin-esque vocals and killer blues harp . She hails from the top of Blues Highway 61 in Thunder Bay, Canada.
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 DENISE KAUFMAN A
musician since her teenage years, Denise's fingers are at home on the strings
of a Hawaiian slack key guitar, electric bass, and blues harmonica. She was a
member of the first all-woman rock band "The Ace of Cups"
of the 1960s,
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She was one of Ken Kesey's Merry
Pranksters, and traveled around the country on
"The Bus"
exploring and stretching the boundaries of her consciousness through the
psychedelic adventure. On the walls of her home hang photographs of Denise
surfing double overhead waves during the last El Nino that passed through the
Pacific Ocean. Denise divides her time between Venice Beach and Kauai, where she
can be found surfing her favorite breaks.
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 JENNY
KERR is a multi-instrumentalist as well as a poetic and
passionate songwriter. She is known for foot-stomping live shows and her
powerful voice. Kerr is a skilled player of finger style guitar, claw hammer
banjo, harmonica, piano, and dobro. With her band of road-tested rogues, she
forays into swamp rock, straight-up soul, backwater honky tonk, and old-time
blues. Jenny tours the world and has headlined festivals in
Germany, France, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria
and Mexico.
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 BETH KOHNEN is a full time blues musician living directly across the bay from San Francisco.
She has taken her music to Paris, the South of France and New Orleans. Beth grew
up in South Portland, Maine, and spent her early years playing Bach on the piano
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At sixteen, her family moved to Pittsubrgh, PA, where she
studied piano with a professor at Carnegie Mellon and sneaked into Crawford's
Grill to hear live blues and jazz. In 2001, Beth recorded her first CD with
Grammy Award winner Steve Freund. In 2005 she began playing at Biscuits & Blues
in San Francisco and released her second CD. She released her third album with
Blues Award nominee Rusty Zinn in May, 2011.more video download Beth welcomes email at bkohnenx@yahoo.com. Listen to her last CD at www.jango.com |
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| < |  BEATA KOSSOWSKA was born during the heyday of the flower power
generation and is a true cosmopolitan, multilungual world traveler, singer and
harmonica player. She now lives in Germany where she performs and teaches when
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JILL "CHILLY" KURTZ plays in the band Caged Heat in the Boston area.
Chilly plays a mean blues harp. Combined with the punk attitude of her band, it
makes for "some of the best new music out there."
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 JESSICA LAUREN Sista Wonder, Lady Light, analog keyboardista, harmonica queen,
multi-instrumentalist, 5-Star Astro-Navigatrix. Cult figure on the London scene
for like 15 years. Favorite place in the world: Out the back with ocean water in
the dreads baby, but it been sooo long... more |
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 TERRY LEONINO is half
of the duo Magpie with Greg Artzner. These well-known folksingers play
everything from traditional, classic country, swing, and blues of the 1920s and
'30s, to contemporary songs written by themselves and others.
Terry and Greg are internationally known for their work in the
environmental movement.
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 CECILIA LoFORTI is an Iconography Artist, Musician, Feng Shui Practitioner and CERT Certified Emergency Responder for Human and Animal Rescue, who started playing the harmonica at the age of twelve in Italy with her mother. She is a world traveler who has lived in six countries and five states, and traveled to 48 countries and 35 states before landing in Portland Oregon. It is her goal to entertain the "world" with her harmonica in hand! She is known as "Ms Harmonica". When she's not traveling, she is designing in her art studio or working on her band project and writing music!
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| TERESA "T-BIRD" LYNNE Teresa "T-Bird" Lynne is a southern gal through and through. She was born in Louisiana and raised as a "military brat", moving a lot and living many places in the Deep South. This gave her exposure to a wide range of blues, soul and gospel music. They say she was playing a harmonica before she could walk. As a teenager, Teresa hit the road, stopping to jam wherever she could and eventually landing in Michigan. After a few years there, she headed south to Nashville and integrated into the city's great music scene. In 1984, she visited Denver and fell in love with the mountains. She was inspired to move to Colorado, where she has become "The Mistress of the Blues", a musical force all along the Rockies. mistressoftheblues.com |  |
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 MICHELLE MALONE was born in the deep south and listened to her mother
sing in the church choir every Sunday. She took the religious roots and mixed in
some blues, folk and rock to create her signature sound. Armed with a bottleneck
slide, a blues harmonica and a powerful voice, she started performing
professionally while in college and now tours and performs more than 150 days a
year. She has won many awards including Best Female Vocalist, Best Acoustic
Guitarist and Album of the Year. more |
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 GUTA MENEZES is a young harmonica virtuoso from Brazil who
also plays trumpet, flugelhorn, saxophone and bagpipe! |
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 JACKIE MERRITT is an accomplished visual artist and musician. She plays
harmonica, guitar bass and bones in several bands including M.S.G-The
Acoustic Blues Trio,
Blues Xchange and Miz A & The Freedom Band. Her harmonica is featured
on the PBS series "Cultivating Life." She paints, draws and teaches art at
several schools. Her series on
"Women of the blues" is one blues fans will enjoy. more |
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 ELLEN "HARPCHIK" MILLER has lived her whole life in Chicago. She is a
successful real estate agent as well as a down home harmonica player.
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 SARAH MESSIAS is from Brazil and another member of the South American group, Mulheres Gaitistas, several young players who love the blues. MySpace Videos |
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 ZOLA MOON is a bombastic singer and entertainer who lives in Southern
California. Her influences come from blues, blues rock, folk, roots, Janis
Joplin & Big Mama Thornton. Her song writing and singing have received rave
reviews from magazines, newspapers, radio DJs, and web sites around the world.
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DOROTHY MOORE is a singer/songwriter and multi-Grammy Award nominee who burst into prominence in 1976 with a number one hit, Misty Blue. She is a Mississippi native with 18 albums to her credit. Dorothy took up the harmonica only recently. more | ||
 LINDA MOSS plays harmonica with the California group, Kelly's Lot, and
is involved in many other musical projects. She is highly respected, referred to
as one of the "world's most famous female woman harmonica players!" by one
enthusiast (her daughter). Linda started playing harmonica professionally at age
15 in Chicago after playing clarinet, oboe and piano in the Chicago Youth
orchestra for several years. Soon, she began playing in Chicago blues clubs and
is said to have performed with Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Son Seals and other
blues legends. more |
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| MULHERES GAITISTAS (Women Harmonica Players) is a group of South American women who play the blues. Members include Sandra Vazquez, Sarah Messias, Maria Barsatto and Natasha Seara. | ||
 OCTAVIA
was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA. Her first performance on stage came at
age five. She began guitar in 1963 and harmonica in 1966 and has never looked
back. She majored in painting and sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts. She calls herself a singer-songwriter-guitarist, but above all a harmonica
player. download
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LIZ PENNOCK began performing professionally  as a solo artist in 1975. Undaunted by what might seem a limitation, Pennock was born minus two fingers on each hand, a fact not evident from the other side of the piano. She has developed her own powerful ivory-tickling style, inspiring countless listeners. Pennock’s songwriting ranges from the romantic “My Best Fan” to the rollicking “He Plays the Boogie.” Liz also plays trombone and was an endorsee for Hohner harmonicas from 1998 thru 2011. |
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ROXY PERRY
was a child prodigy. She started out fronting
swing bands at the famous Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle, New York, and
performed her first major concert at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles at the
age of nine. Roxy launched her blues career in the late ‘80’s, when she quickly
became known for her exciting live performances at clubs, concert halls and
festivals throughout the U.S. and abroad. She has won many awards including a
Grammy nomination. more |
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 MATTIE PHIFER has been performing with bands since 1967 when she and
her seventh grade friends formed the Wild Surfs. At age twelve, Mattie was playing
guitar and singing songs by the Rolling Stones, The Animals, The Beatles, and
other top groups of the 60s.
During College in the 1970s, Mattie performed songs from the women's movement
with friends who later formed a group named Mama Tried. Mattie then ventured
into a more rock/blues oriented group known as the Sensible Pumps, an "all female blues band" of the southeast and toured in the late
1980s. In
the '90s, she joined forces with singer Kimberly J. Miller to perform "The
Women of the Blues" at the Smithsonian Institute. Currently she plays in
the Phifer-Marshall Band.
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 RACHEL PLAS is an exceptionally talented young player from France. Her
mother taught her to play the flute and she learned the harmonica from a little
book. At the age of eight, she began six years of harmonica school. At the age
of thirteen, she won her first harp contest. Since then she has appeared at
several blues and harp festivals. There are rumors she is also a Judo champion.
Rachel is currently studying at the University of Sorbonne in Paris.
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 VICTORIA PURINGTON lives in the Seattle area where she helps recovering
addicts through music. But on weekends you will probably find her playin' the blues!
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 ANNIE RAINES is one of the most well-known woman harmonica players in
America. With her partner, Paul Rishell, Annie has been blowing up a "storm" along the East
Coast and elsewhere for years touring internationally at festivals, clubs, and
concert halls; and teaching workshops and seminars. Paul & Annie were featured in the 2007 jug band
music documentary, Chasin’ Gus’ Ghost. They have performed on diverse
radio and TV shows including A Prairie Home Companion, Late Night with Conan
O’Brien, and PBS’s Arthur.
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 PAULA RANGELL started studying classical music on the clarinet when she was seven. At fourteen, she picked up the harmonica and a growing love of the blues and jazz. This prompted her evolution as a saxophone player. Her band, Paula and the Pontiacs, is a New Orleans band that will rock you with "gut-bucket" blues, classic R&B, and soulful originals. Living Blues magazine says "Rangell is a fine instrumentalist and, more importantly, an effective vocalist who has her timing and delivery down". more |
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 GENYA RAVAN is a rock ’n’ roll pioneer. She has
single-handedly busted down the male-dominated walls of every facet of the
record industry. Being part of
the first successful all-girl band, Goldie and the Gingerbreads, she
paved the way for bands like Fanny, The Go-Go’s and The Bangles.
She went on to front the powerful horn band Ten Wheel Drive, and she has
many production credits, including starting her own record label.
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 ROCHELLE RAYA got her first harmonica at a Sly Stone concert when he threw his harp into the audience and she caught it. It was the beginning of a beautiful relationship with the harmonica. Rochelle has been a heavyweight in the Phoenix, Arizona blues scene for many years. In 2001, she was inducted into the Arizona Blues Hall of Fame. more |
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 DIANA REDLIN is formerly
from Montana where she played in the Moonlighters band among others and
was highly rated as a harmonica player. She has been playing on stage since 1972
and has opened for Koko Taylor, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells and
others. A few years ago Diana
relocated to Southern California where she also designs jewelry. Several
websites display her artistic creations.
She hasn't played on stage recently, but continues to jam with friends
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 AUREA REGINA an is a
musician who plays harmonica and alto flute. She lives in Rio De Janeiro,
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 ROBIN ROGERS had a
short, but mercurial love affair with the blues. Her powerful voice catapulted
her to the top of the charts in just two years. Her second album, Back In The
Fire, debuted at #3 on the charts. On December 15, 2010 she received a Blues
Music Award nomination for Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year. Two
days later she
succumbed to cancer.
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KELLIE RUCKER discovered the harmonica at
the age of twelve. As a teenager
she snuck into blues clubs to see the greats. When she was seventeen, she headed
west to Denver, where she put together her first blues band, Blues For
Breakfast. Later she landed in L.A. and formed a band with Debbie Davies.
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 JUDY RUDIN has been playing the harmonica for more than 40 years. Currently she plays with the Front Porch Band out of L.A.
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 RHONDA RUCKER practiced
medicine for five years before becoming a full-time folk musician. She is a
versatile performer, singing and playing blues harmonica, piano, and banjo.
Rhonda has recorded eight albums with her husband Sparky. Their 1991 release,
Treasures and Tears, was nominated for the W.C. Handy Award for Best
Traditional Recording.
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 NEDRA RUSS
was born in the Bay Area of California and raised in the gold country, where
nature and the outdoors inspire her paintings and digital art. Nedra picked up a
harmonica at an early age and has never put it down.
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 ELIZABETH G. SCHULZ
is a naturalized American who emigrated from Scotland with
her family in the 1960's. "After finally playing onstage at
SPAH in Denver and
meeting some especially incredible people, I know I'm firmly on the right
path...finally. Music has taken over my life, along with the harmonica playing
of the brilliant Jason Ricci" GO TO HER MYSPACE PAGE |
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 NATACHA SEARA is from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is a member of Mulheres Gaitistas.
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 JANE SIET is an artist-photographer who graduated from the University
of the Arts in Philadelphia, and was a scenic artist for Broadway, operas,
movies, and commercials in NYC before moving to So Cal with her husband Mark.
She became a harmonic player in 1995 after picking up a harmonica in Mark's
studio. Within six months they were gigging together as J J Slim every
weekend until 2002 when they stopped gigging, and she stopped playing. Her
husband says, "The harmonica was just another expression for her amazing
artistic talents." They produced one album titled
"One Shining Star." Mark has
started gigging again and thinks Jane will join him by and by.
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 CLAUDIA SIEVERLING plays the blues around Portland, Oregon.
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 WILLOW STONE lives near Seattle, Washington. She hosts a blues jam every week in Everett, which just won the "Best Jam" award at the Washington State Blues Awards. more |
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 CATRIANA STURTON is
an Ottawa, Ontario based singer, songwriter and multi- instrumentalist. She has
had a prolific career, performing in bands such as
Plumtree and with
members of
Sloan and
Blue
Rodeo and many other collaborations.
Catriana got her start at an
early age when her parents gave her classical violin lessons for eight
years. In her teens, while shopping for some fiddle music, she saw a harmonica
and bought it. This led to a passion for the Blues.
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 SUNNY GIRL "When I was three, my parents bought me a Casio keyboard and I was taught the basics. After learning the C Major Scale, my father gave me my first harmonica. He created a system to help me learn where the notes are on the harmonica and he showed me how to play my first song, "You Are My Sunshine". My sister Rockyn’ Robyn is learning keyboards and we are working on material as well.
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 ANNETTE (MISS HARP) TABORN comes from Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she was
a vocalist and
harmonica player for more than 20 years. Annette co-founded the Kalamazoo Blues
Association and served as director of their Blues Festival the first two years,
After relocating to Seattle, she currently plays with James Curley Cooke as
a duo and in their four-piece band, Blues To Burn. Annette was recently
appointed to the Seattle Music Commission.
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 VIKKI THORN (née Simpson) is an Australian
harmonica player, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, famous as
one-third of the folk rock band The Waifs. She lights up the stage with her
singing, playing and dancing. more |
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 WILLIE MAE "BIG MAMA" THORNTON was and still is the most well known woman player of blues harp in America. She was a robust, strong-willed woman who became famous as a singer and songwriter, but she also played harmonica and drums. Two of her recorded harp solos are; "Your Love Is Where It Ought To Be" and "Big Mama's Shuffle." Watch Big Mama kick butt on these two treasures.more Rock Me Baby |
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| MARION TURNER lives in Victoria, Australia. She plays harmonica and sings in the band, Salty Dog. more | ||
 SANDRA VAZQUEZ began private music lessons at the age of ten and went on to study
with many accomplished players such as Lee Oscar. From that early start, she
devoted her life to music, giving private lessons and performing at many shows,
festivals and recitals. Sandra is a member of Mulheres Gaitistas and is billed as
"Argentina's Best Harmonica Player!"
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 LIEDEWIJ VEENHUIS lives in The Netherlands where she plays harmonica with
Bradley's Circus. more |
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| MINNIE WALLACE played with the Memphis Jug Band and was the mother of Lucille Hegamin. Minnie recorded four tracks of hokum blues with her band. Strangely absent from most lists of blues women and harmonica players, Minnie Wallace’s powerful vocal delivery suggests a tent show background and might even have harkened back to minstrel show days. | ||
 JULIE WHITE played harmonica and guitar in and around Hesperia, California.
She loved to jam. She passed away, succumbing to cancer, in November 2009.
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