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.

This article appears in Nov 9-15, 2005.