Ethel Waters News

Today is Saturday, Oct. 31, the 304th day of 2009 with 61 to follow. This is Halloween.

Harlem Speaks: Featuring Sandra Reeves-Phillips, Vocalist, Thursday, October 8th, 6:30 - " 8:30 pm @ the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, 104 East 126th Street, Suite 2C Songstress and dramatic actress Sandra Reaves-Phillips is a modern day griot, a keeper of the musical traditions of her artistic ancestors, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters, ...

Larry Parr's one-woman show "Ethel Waters: His Eye Is on the Sparrow" is the story of a singer and actress who broke new ground for black performers in the 1920s, '30s and beyond.

Schele Williams still believes there's no place like home. Going on 20 years ago, she sang those words as Dorothy in a Muse Machine production of "The Wiz" at the Victoria Theatre.

The 1920's ushered in a great jazz age, where sexually ambiguous female jazz singers, such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Alberta Hunter, Moms Mabley and Ethel Waters purposely cultivated lesbian or bisexual images to broaden their appeal.