Award-winning singer Ida McBeth is one of Kansas City's most enduring treasures. Over the years, her repertoire has included pop-style ballads, jazz and blues, show tunes, funk, R&B, gospel and well known standards. The New York Times applauded her "technique, taste and sass... her precise intuition, guts and raw confidence." And Ida's lithesome vocals continue to embrace the subtleties of jazz, pop, blues and soul, both in her home base of Kansas City and on the road.

In 1984, she was named by the Kansas City-based International Jazz Hall of Fame as both "Best Female Jazz Vocalist" and "Entertainer of the Year." In 1990 Kansas City Mayor Richard Berkeley awarded her a special proclamation designating April 27, 1990 as "Ida McBeth's 20th Anniversary Day." And also in 1990, Ida was named as one of Kansas City's "People of the Year" by Ingram's Magazine.

Most recently, Ida's outstanding achievements have included performing the national anthem for the presidential nomination of Al Gore at the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, Kansas City's 150th birthday bash at Arrowhead Stadium with Kenny Rodgers and Walter Cronkite, as well as performing at the Smithsonian Institute in 2001.