Pamela Rose brought her Wild Women of Song show to the Harold and Dorothy Steward Center for Jazz (Jazz at the Bistro), Sunday June 21, 2015.The event took place at 3536 Washington Avenue, located across the street from the Fox theater, Grand Center. The pre-concert activities began at 6:00 PM with the show following at 7:00 PM. The evening celebrated key women composers in early Jazz and blues music.The Pamela Rose Band features Pamela Rose as the vocalist and educator on the women of Jazz.

The program, a rollicking live concert, uses projected archival photos of Jazz and blues female artists, storytelling about these women and their lives, and Ms. Rose’s narrating and singing with her band. The group has toured with Pamela Rose for five years, and they have covered this project from London to Los Angeles.

Hailed by Universities and Jazz Festivals as “an exuberant celebration of the fascinating women who helped create the American Songbook,” Pamela Rose took the audience on a journey from minstrel shows to early Jazz in Chicago, Tin Pan Alley, Memphis and the Blues, and Bebop. Projecting images while her musicians joined her in storytelling, singing and playing music, the concert has become popular with a wide range of audiences from ages 8 through 98. Pamela Rose’s work mined down to the historical and personal journeys of some very key women composers in early Jazz and Blues, including Memphis Minnie, Alberta Hunter, Mary Lou Williams Ann Ronnel, Dorothy Fields, and Peggy Lee.

Rose herself observed, “the show is a joyous celebration of key women in blues and jazz. And, along the way, we celebrate American Jazz and Blues itself”.

The performance benefited The Don and Heide Wolff Jazz institute at Harris-Stowe State University and the Laura X – Laura Rand Orthwein, Jr. Institute for the Legacy and Learning of Social Justice Movements.