Peggy “Blues Chanteuse” Ratusz, has won best in Blues awards for the past 17 years as well as best vocalist and most notable local musician who gives back to the community. A three-time semi-finalist in the International Blues Challenge held in Memphis, TN for the past 36 years, Ratusz produces her own shows including “Love Letter: A Tribute to Bonnie Raitt,” and “Blues In the Night” a collection of torchy and tantalizing Jazz standards, Swing tunes and Blues Shuffles. She’s opened for Tedeschi Trucks band, Taj Mahal, Geoff Atchison, Bob Margolin, Danielle Nicole Band, the late Denise LaSalle and the Beach Boys. An advocate for female vocalists and musicians, she is published each month in SOFIA magazine writing a feature she created; “Women Making Music.”