Ruthie Foster live in concert.
ON TOUR

Ruthie Foster

13
critic concert reviews
blues

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

78
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Based on 
13
critic concert
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Last 12 Months Rating  
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Critic Consensus

Based on 13 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Ruthie Foster is rated as an impressive live performer, with many notable strengths. Ruthie Foster concert reviews describe live shows and performances as soulful and powerful.

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Latest Release

Healing Time (November 18, 2022)

Artist Info

Genre
blues
Origin
Gause, United States (2/10/1964) (2/10/1964)
Bio
Ruthie Foster is an American singer/songwriter of blues and folk music. She is from Gause, Texas and from a family of gospel singers.
Has Performed With

Critic Concert Reviews

Nippertown (USA)

April 9, 2024
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Lena Spencer has to be rolling in her grave over some of the changes her Caffe Lena has gone through in the 35 years since her death, but she was smiling down on a sellout crowd Thursday night whose adulation for Ruthie Foster was reflected back on us as if Ruthie were a parabolic mirror.

Parklife DC (USA)

August 3, 2023
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Ruthie Foster Live In Concert @ The Hamilton Live — 7/30/23

Americana Highways (USA)

November 20, 2018
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Foster opened her show with the self-penned “Brand New Day,” from her 2014 album, The Promise of a Brand New Day. She followed with “Singing the Blues,” another original and the lead track from the same album. For her third song, Foster played Sister Rosetta Tharpe's “Up Above My Head.”

Jambands (USA)

March 22, 2018
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Worthington, UK

Houston Music Review (USA)

March 5, 2017
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Caldwell has a large Czech population that was referred to by the local WASP population as Bo hunks generally a mildly derogatory term for Bohemian.

Houston Music Review (USA)

September 18, 2015
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The show was advertised as Ruthie Foster and the Family Wash Band but when she strolled out by her lonesome we were a bit taken a back.

Reading Eagle (USA)

June 20, 2015
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Ruthie Foster charms Berks Country Fest crowd

Past critic reviews published in

Libel (New Zealand), Twin Cities Daily Planet (USA), Westword (USA), Grateful Web (USA)

Image Credit

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