Schedule
Friday, September 13, 2024 from 4:00 - 5:00 pm (Blues Stage)
Saturday, September 14, 2024 at 10 pm (Juke Joint - Sheridan Opera House)
Sunday, September 15, 2024 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm (Campground Sessions)
Pat “Mother Blues” Cohen shares the mettle, pathos, and ocean-deep compassion of the blues singers she idolizes — Billie Holiday, Koko Taylor, and Etta James. Despite losing her home twice, she keeps taking her talent and heart to the world. Pat’s performances have always unfurled the tapestry of her life experiences to her audience in soulful words and music. That compassion began to flow from Pat in brand new ways during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. As her scheduled gigs disappeared, she began playing one-woman shows at nursing homes. She even made phone calls to individual people and sang to them. These works of compassion wound up making her the subject of touching stories on PBS Newshour and in Rolling Stone Magazine.