King Street Blues touts itself as “comfort food with a southern accent.” This is not entirely accurate, but definitely more catchy than “above average diner kinda dressed up like a blues bar.”

King Street Blues touts itself as “comfort food with a southern accent.” This is not entirely accurate, but definitely more catchy than “above average diner kinda dressed up like a blues bar.”
For Vienna-based blues musician Cathy Ponton King, music runs in her blood. Growing up in an Irish-American household in Hyattsville, Md., singing was just part of the tradition. Her grandmother Margaret Coakley, who established the Irish American Club of Washington, would hold house parties where members would take turns singing […]