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Alabama Music Office.com goes to DanielDay Gallery for the Magic City Blues Society junkyard juke with Candye Kane performing.
Kanes' live shows are the stuff of legend. She honors the bold blues women of the past with both feet firmly planted in the present. She belts - growls - shouts - croons and moans from a lifetime of suffering and overcoming obstacles. She uses music as therapy and often writes and chooses material with positive affirmations that leave the audience feeling healed and exhilarated. A show that is part humor, revival meeting and sexuality celebration, she'll deliver a barrelhouse-tongue in-cheek blues tune or a gospel ballad like Jesus and Mohammed, encouraging audiences to leave behind religious intolerance. She'll slay the crowd with her balls out rendition of Whole Lotta Love or glorify the virtues of zaftig women with 200 pounds of fun. She often says she is a "fat black drag queen trapped in a white woman's body" and she dresses the part. Bedecked in bright colored feathers, sequins and rhinestones, Kane's performance is Mississippi by way of Las Vegas with a quick stopover in San Francisco.

A Blues Diva of the 20th century who can liven up any party without shedding a stitch - People Magazine
A true celebrity diva- New Yorker Magazine

This tough cookie wails with a rousing confidence and affirmation of identity and the courage of her convictions - Downbeat Magazine

A serious and seriously powerful singer who lays it all on the line - The Philadelphia Inquirer

A voice that is a natural wonder - like the Grand Canyon. - The Washington Post

Candye Kane has that big, brassy voice that has authority and sass; the kind of thing men like because it's seductive and women like because it's powerful - BB King to the San Diego Reader