JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Blues legend Gertrude “Ma” Rainey electrified Jacksonville’s LaVilla district in the early 1900s, building her reputation as the “Mother of the Blues” while breaking barriers as ...
Blues musician Charlie Apicella’s formula for success is simple: He awakens every day creating music to make Ma Rainey proud. Apicella never met Rainey, who died in 1939, but he said it is impossible ...
Streaming on Netflix is a 2020 motion picture based on the 1982 play by August Wilson titled “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Starring Academy Award-winning actress Viola Davis as the “Mother of the Blues, ...
CAPTURING AUDIENCES. THESE SNAPSHOTS TAKE YOU BACK TO A SNAPSHOT IN HISTORY 1927, IN CHICAGO, WHERE SINGER MA RAINEY IS MERGING JAZZ AND BLUES WHILE EMERGING AS A STAR. MA RAINEY, HER CHARACTER. SHE ...
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, which features Viola Davis as the "Mother of the Blues," will premiere December 18 globally on Netflix. A new teaser trailer has been released from the forthcoming Netflix ...
The inaugural production held in Madison Arts Center’s new cabaret space is the third in Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company’s August Wilson’s American Century Cycle Experience, “Ma Rainey’s Black ...
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