The Kat's M.E.O.W. -- that's short for Music Empowering Ohio's Women -- is a night out with the girls, and these are the area's top eight women that you'd want to spend a night out with, assuming you're into reverent but thoroughly modern takes on the blues. As a benefit for the women's shelter Genesis House, Elyria jam-night hot spot
Tommy Rockers will host singer
Mary Bridget Davies, trumpet diva-singer
Kristine Jackson (of Basically Blue, pictured), singer-songwriters
Angel Foss &
Megan Clay, and other notables.