Performance
Date
Sunday,
June 5
Ann Rabson has been
playing and singing the blues professionally since
1962. A member of Saffire—The Uppity Blues Women,
she also performs solo and with various other bands.
The year 2003 marks
Ann's seventh nomination for a
W.C.
Handy Award as Traditional Blues Female Artist
of the Year. In 1998 her first solo album, Music
Makin' Mama, was nominated as Album of the
Year in both the Traditional Blues and Acoustic
Blues categories. In 1992 her composition Elevator
Man was nominated as Song of the Year.
Ann has toured
Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Greece,
Holland, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain and
Switzerland with Saffire, and Canada both with
Saffire and with Jackson Delta. She has made two
solo European tours, and in 1998 she toured Europe
with piano legend Erwin Helfer.
She has performed solo at the Jazz Club of Hong
Kong, and in 2000 she headlined the BluesAlive
international blues festival in Sumperk, Czech
Republic.
For
more information on Ann, visit http://dcwi.com/~rabson/Welcome.html.
