Jimi Hendrix, Vaudevillian
Today is the birthday of Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970). About five years ago when I gave a talk in Seattle about  their local vaudeville history, I dropped the bombshell that Jimi Hendrix’ paternal grandparents had been in vaudeville. His grandmother Zenora “Nora” Moore, was a half-black, half-Cherokee Georgia native raised in Tennessee. Around the turn of [...]