A NARRATED show featuring music from the 1920s and 30s will be performed at the county town tonight.
Bessie Smith: Empress of Blues and Jazz is at Dorchester Corn Exchange on Saturday, January 27 at 8pm.
Bessie was one the most popular female singers of the 1920s and 1930s and a major influence on other jazz singers.
Ma Bessie (Julia Titus) and her blues troupe perform to a narrated show, featuring music from the era and showcasing many of Bessie’s songs. The show chronicles her life from a one-room shack in Blue Goose Hollow, through becoming the highest-paid black entertainer of that time, to the tragic accident on Route 61 in September 1937 that ended her life at the age of just 43.
Contact the box office for tickets and more information.
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