Mary James, more commonly known as “Mean Mary” will perform at Ca d’Zan House Concerts in Cambridge, Ill., on Thursday, July 31. The evening will begin with a potluck dinner at 6 p.m., with music ...

The extraordinary life of roots artist Mean Mary reads like an adventure book — an anthology of them, actually. Her nomadic upbringing saw her roaming from Florida to the northern wilderness, from the ...