Battle of the Blues Divas 2010
Facts
- The URL scbsevents.org/battle-of-the-blues-divas-2010 existed on the original site and was captured by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
- This page is part of the broader SCBS "Battle of the Blues Divas" series documented at /battle-of-the-blues-diva-s.
- Koko Taylor, the "Queen of the Blues," died in June 2009, and Shemekia Copeland was given the title "New Queen of the Blues" at the 2009 Chicago Blues Festival; these are independently documented national blues-world events from the period, offered here as context, not as claims about this specific local event's lineup.
- No lineup, venue, date within 2010, judges, or winner for this specific installment could be verified.
This archive entry corresponds to the 2010-dated installment of the Southern California Blues Society's "Battle of the Blues Divas" series, as named by the original page's URL on scbsevents.org. The Southern California Blues Journal is an independent fan-run guide rebuilding and contextualizing this domain's record of local blues community events; we are not the original SCBS organization, and nothing here should be read as an official or complete account of what actually happened at any particular 2010 event.
We can confirm that a page with this exact address existed on the original site: an Internet Archive Wayback Machine snapshot of scbsevents.org/battle-of-the-blues-divas-2010 shows the page returning a valid response before the domain eventually expired. We were not able to pull readable text out of that archived capture for this rebuild, which means we cannot responsibly tell you who performed, where the evening was held, who judged it, or who won. Rather than guess or invent those specifics to fill the gap, we are documenting plainly that this information is currently unverified, and we would welcome a correction from anyone who actually attended or has preserved programs, flyers, or photos from the night.
What we can offer instead is honest context for the moment this event sat in. Entering 2010, the national blues scene was still absorbing the loss of Koko Taylor, the Chicago blues singer known for decades as the "Queen of the Blues," who died in June 2009. Just months before her death, Shemekia Copeland had been publicly given Koko Taylor's crown as the "New Queen of the Blues" at the 2009 Chicago Blues Festival, a changing-of-the-guard moment that was widely covered in blues media at the time. Local "divas" showcases staged by regional blues societies around the country, including whatever Southern California's version looked like in this period, existed against that backdrop of renewed attention to women's place at the center of the genre, not at its margins.
If you are trying to piece together the fuller history of this series, two related pages may help. Our Battle of the Blues Divas: Event History page covers the series format and SCBS's broader programming, while More Battle of the Blues Divas: Archive Collection gathers what additional fragments and images we have located elsewhere on the old site structure. Our general photo archive is also worth checking as we continue adding attributed images.
