Ladiesinthe Bluesshow

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‘Ladies in the Blues’ will perform at Mermaid Arts Centre on Friday and Saturday, March 3 and 4 at 8 p.m.

Ladies In the Blues is a live music theatre show charting the journey of pioneering women in the blues such as Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Maimie Smith who made early blues recordings. These women were instrumental in spreading the blues from the vaudeville years to the jazz era right up to the late 19th century. The four Irish women of the blues - Flo Mc Sweeney, Clara Rose, Emma Nicolai and Jhil Quinn are accompanied by a cracking live blues band featuring Ireland’s greatest exponents of the blues including Ed

(Photo: Joe Keogh).

Frank Keogh (second from left) enjoying the surprise party to mark his 60th birthday with Patricia Peare-Keogh, Aaron Keogh, Michelle Keogh, Carl Keogh and Sarah Owens in the Coach and Horses Pub, Bray