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100 Years of women in blues

Aug. 9 - 25, 2019

Teatro wego! (tw)

Created by and Starring Dorian Rush

Creative Team

At one time or another we have all felt the blues, and artists like Bonnie Raitt, Janis Joplin, Irma Thomas, Ma Rainey and Big Mama Thornton among others, have expressed in their songs our feelings and our sins. This show, by Big Easy Entertainment Award Winner Dorian Rush, travels from 1919 to 2019 and it’s a journey of life, love, heartache and loss. Who could do this better than the Women of the Blues?

ARTISTS

DORIAN RUSH

Herself

Dorian Rush

Dorian is a starlet in anyone’s book. She has performed over 1100 live shows and moves easily between singing with a band and bringing her magic to the stage in live theater productions. She is best known for her performances with local theater troop, Running With Scissors, and her solo adventures of writing and producing her one woman shows. Most notable is her show on the life and music of Janis Joplin called Livin’ Janis in 2009, and her show about Linda Ronstadt’s incredible body of work, True Blue Bayou in 2014. With multiple Big Easy Entertainment Awards under her belt, her specialties are Blues, Funk, R&B, Jazz, and Soul. This tribute to the Women in Blues holds a special place in her heart; paying homage to so many great singers and telling some of their stories is the only way she knows how to thank them. Without them, she would never have had the guts to get up on stage in the first place. A formidable singer with a bodacious set of pipes, she’s available for weddings, divorces, and other catered affairs.

Ainsley Matich

Piano/Guitar

Ainsley Matich

Ainsley has been a performing musician in New Orleans for the past 9 years, doing everything and anything that involves music: music directing, band leading, writing songs, arranging charts, transcribing, and performing as a side(wo)man with various New Orleans bands. You can find her locally leading her own project, Ainsley Matich and the Broken Blues, or participating in a variety of musical theater shows from behind the piano. A lover of the blues, she is excited to bring 100 Years of Women in Blues to life for JPAS audiences. She’s learned a few stories from these legends that she’d never heard before and hopes that everyone walks away with a new respect for the women who carved the path for the musicians who followed.