Building on her passion for the “Empress of the Blues”, Julia TitusJulia Titus formed her Pig Foot Band in mid-2015 to share the music of Bessie Smith and her contemporaries, with a new generation of listeners. Mixing Julia’s rich, warm vocal sound with a dynamic band that look and sound the part, Ma Bessie and her Pig Foot Band perform classic blues and jazz tunes from the 1930s with a selection of original songs and hand picked covers from the last 50 years of popular music.