8:00 pm Unum Stage

Los Angeles based Janiva Magness is one of today’s most talented and recognized blues and roots vocalists. A three-decade darling of the blues genre, Janiva currently resides at the top of the genre. In May 2007, Janiva won her second consecutive Blues Music Award for Contemporary Female Artist of the Year beating out contemporaries Susan Tedeschi, Shemekia Copeland and Marcia Ball. Janiva is nominated for the 2008 Blues Music Award for the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award. Billboard writes “Magness carves out a niche by singing the blues with maturity and sophistication." Singer Magazine writes “Her voice is sultry, smoky and strong with jazz, blues, and soul textures enveloping it.”