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"The Washington Post"

"she radiates plenty of warmth and personality onstage." - Mike Joyce


"The Washington Times"

"She brings the respect and understanding which should always underlie interpretative license." - C.R. Hodge


"The Washington Post"

"she radiates plenty of warmth and personality onstage." - Mike Joyce


"The Prince George's County Times"

"The Ruby Hayes Quartet gave a wonderful performance and made the audience "beg" for more." - Angela Mitchell


"Walla Walla Blues Society"

This woman has a smooth clear voice and sounds as if she is very comfortable with her singing and enjoys what she does. Listening to this CD is a treat and her gospel beginnings and jazz influences show through.

- Marla Fitzsimmons


"The Prince George's County Times"

"The Ruby Hayes Quartet gave a wonderful performance and made the audience "beg" for more." - Angela Mitchell


"Frost Illustrated - Fort Wayne, Indiana"

Ruby turns in an absolutely smoldering performance on “Ruby’s Blues.”
“Ruby’s Blues” by Ruby Hayes is a real treat for those who are uncompromising and unapologetic about their love for good old roots music.
- Michael Patterson


"Frost Illustrated - Fort Wayne, Indiana"

Ruby turns in an absolutely smoldering performance on “Ruby’s Blues.”
“Ruby’s Blues” by Ruby Hayes is a real treat for those who are uncompromising and unapologetic about their love for good old roots music.
- Michael Patterson


Discography

The CD "Ruby's Blues", winner of The Recording Academy's CD contest. The CD is currently getting radio airplay in numerous cities and countries around the world.

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In February and March 2006, Ruby completed an Armed Forces Entertainment tour of the Caribbean Circuit. She and her 5-piece band entertained and uplifted the spirits of the troops in Puerto Rico and Honduras.
A veteran performer, Ruby is headlining shows around the Washington DC Metropolitan area and the West coast. She was Headliner in The San Diego 2004 Adams Avenue Street Fair Festival. She has opened shows for international artists such as James Cotton (former harp player for Muddy Waters) Vernon Garrett, and Ray, Goodman, & Brown, th late Little Milton and The Four Tops . The Washington Area Music Association (WAMA) nominated her “Best Blues Vocalist” 2002. WAMA also nominated her CD, “Ruby’s Blues” as “Best Blues Recording 2003.” Her CD “Ruby’s Blues” won The Recording Academy’s CD Contest. She was a 2002 grant recipient of the DC Commission of Arts and Humanities and a 2003 grant recipient of Jim B.E.A.M. Music.
In year 2003, WETA TV Channel 26 featured her as a Washington DC-based blues artist in the advertisements for “The Blues” produced by Martin Scorsese. Other 2003 television appearances include Montgomery Community Television and Prince Georges Community Television.
Ruby started singing at age 14 leading a gospel choir in her hometown of Plumerville, Arkansas. She toured numerous towns around Arkansas before she moved to Washington, DC in the early 1970's. In Washington, DC she made her professional singing debut at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel as part of the Al Martinez jazz combo.
Later she honed her skills in a rhythm and blues band called the Exclusives and performed in military officers clubs and major hotel ballrooms around the Washington, DC metropolitan area. In 1975 Ruby started her own jazz and blues band and she performed up and down the East Coast from New York to Florida and made television appearances on WJLA, Channel 7, and WDCA, Channel 20 in Washington, DC.
Ruby is currently performing in some of the top venues & festivals in the Washington, DC area such as Blues Alley, Bangkok Blues, and The Two Nineteen Basin Street Lounge, the Prince Georges Bluebird Blues Festival, and The Annual DC Blues Society Festival.
Ruby is known for her upbeat, interactive performance style. When not performing in the various clubs & festivals, she performs in her own original one-woman musical, Ruby Hayes Sings Bessie’s Blues at the National Theater, Helen Hayes Gallery, Washington, DC and other venues. Although, she is seen as cool, calm and reserved, when she takes the stage, she's hotter than the month of July. Watch for Ruby, the 'Princess of the Blues', to become a major force in the blues arena!
For more information, visit www.rubyhayes.com.