PRESS RELEASE!!! It's OFFICIAL! INTERNATIONAL WOMEN IN BLUES...
Teresa Brewer
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It's Official!!! INTERNATIONAL WOMEN IN BLUES – Artists Big Red and The Soul Benders and Teressa “BluesBabe” Brewer on Tour Together
International Women in Blues is proud to announce our inception as an official and legitimate non profit organization and that two of our premier blues women and Executive Officers, will be on tour together and performing this Friday and Saturday in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana area.
Arkansas Blues and Heritage Award winner - from the Arkansas Arts Council - “ Big Red and The Soul Benders,” starring Kelley “Big Red” Taylor, will be performing at the world famous Teddy's Juke Joint this Friday night, in Zachary Louisiana, just outside Baton Rouge and Saturday at Birdies Road House in Angie, Louisiana.
Big Red and The Soul Benders are 4 time contenders in the International Blues Challenge and two time invitees to the National Women In Blues Festival in Wilmington North Carolina, by it's founder Michele Seidman. Her singing and song writing is unique and influenced by with such greats as KoKo Taylor, Etta James, Big Mama Thornton and Janis Joplin. Her songs have an energy of hard driving blues, combined with delta blues and tells blues stories that will make you jump out of your seat and scream for more. Big Red, has three album releases, the latest is “Under the Delta Moon.”
“Big Red and the Soul Benders” has also performed at the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival's main stage (formerly known as the world famous King Biscuit Festival), Still Water Blues Fest, T-Bone Walker Blues Fest & the Muddy Waters' Mud In to celebrate Muddy Waters' birthday. Red was also the first woman to do a live show on the King Biscuit Blues time radio show with the Great “Sunshine” Sonny Payne.
Teressa “BluesBabe” Brewer, has been invited to tour with and be featured in Big Red's show and is the newest addition to The Soul Benders. She will blow you away with her harmonicas and voice. She will be arriving from St. Louis to join “Big Red and The Soul Benders” on their tour.
Unquestionably, Teressa “BluesBabe” Brewer, is one of the most versatile and prolific artists in the business. She is a vocalist, a harmonica player, a poet, a producer, a writer, a composer, a musician, a media personality, Blues/Jazz pioneer, an activist, a photo journalist and a celebrity in her own right. Cousin of Leanne Womack and Roy Rogers and a direct descendant of one of the pioneering families of Missouri, particularly the Ozarks; the Womacks. Ms. Brewer was born in Oregon and raised in Portland.
She has spent most of her life performing through out the US and Canada, particularly Las Vegas. While she can sing any style, she is best known as a blues/jazz, R&B vocalist and harmonica player. Her style like her beauty, is dynamic. Her warm sultry voice, stage presence and passionate performance catapult her success nationwide.
As the Las Vegas Mirror put it “Teressa Brewer has more moves than the L.A. Rams backfield.”
Brewer arrived in the Missouri Ozarks in 1998 to find her long lost family. She has performed through out Branson at Tony Z's, Club Vegas and The Outback Pub and in Springfield at several venues including Springfield's premier blues club Nathan P. Murphy's, as a special guest artist. She moved to the St. Louis area in the summer of 2007 and has performed at BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups with many blues greats, including Larry Garner, Big George Brock, Arthur Williams & Stacy Mitchhart. Teressa has performed at many venues nationwide. The highlights for her personally, were the House of Blues in New Orleans, had a bit part in the movie “Heat “with Burt Reynolds. She was the associate producer for “The Show of Shows” at Ceasar’s Palace and been a co-founder of many organizations including the NW Florida Blues Society, the Las Vegas Blues Society and American Family Rights Association-Missouri Inc.
In 1998, Brewer was the producer for Earthday’s show “Reflections” at Seville Square in Pensacola Florida. The success of this event was talked about for years. She is credited for bringing the blues to N.W. Florida, assisting in the first annual Blues Festival. Her band “Teressa Brewer’s Armed and Dangerous Blues Band,” was the only female blues act in N.W. Florida at that time and the hottest band in the area. Widowed and left to raise five children completely alone in 1987, with no supportive family, made road trips no longer an option for Teressa, so she became a broadcaster and public speaker after attending National Broadcasting School in Portland Oregon. The result was employment by KFAR/KWLF radio in Alaska as well KATN the ABC/NBC affiliate, writing, directing, producing and voicing spots, doing news, board operation and A.E. At KNEWS in Las Vegas she was the weekend news anchor and reporter.
Brewer is also a published poet. Her poem “The Struggle” was the winner of an annual poetry contest and she was inducted into the Poet’s Literary Society. This work was honored in Washington D.C. in 2000 and she was invited to add her pro’s to that of Ghandi, in celebration of her poetic vision. Her performance goals are now to record her own album for national release in addition to touring with “Big Red and The Soul Benders.”
Additionally, Teressa “BluesBabe” Brewer, is a member of BMI and the Federation of American Musicians Singers and Performing Artists. She is written up and featured in two of FAMSPA's who's who books by Maximillien De Lafayette and published by Time Square Press in New York, entitled ENTERTAINMENT GREATS FROM THE 1800'S TO THE PRESENT: CINEMA, STAGE, MUSIC, DIVAS, LEGENDS and THE MOST SIGNIFICANT PERSONALITIES WHOM HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE BETTERMENT OF SOCIETY.
“Big Red and the Soul Benders” and Teressa “BluesBabe” Brewer are both independent artists, registered with BMI.
International Women in Blues' website, Board of Directors, mission statement and membership info is forthcoming.
BluesBabe Enterprises LLC is a proud member of ASCAP.