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Some recently discovered tapes give a glimpse into the musical mind of a talented but forgotten folk artist. Karen Dalton, (1938-1993), was a folk singer who was part of the Greenwich Village scene in the early 1960?s. Bob Dylan called Dalton; "the...
Mon August 25, 2008, 11:05 am |
Many jazz lovers wish they could step back in time to meet some of the legendary musicians that they know only through recordings. That may never be possible, but some local fans have collaborated to bring a jazz icon back for an encore....
Fri August 22, 2008, 3:15 pm |
The fine new album that brings one of Toronto's coolest vocalists to Aeolian Hall tonight is called Lily Swings: Lily Frost sings songs of Billie Holiday....
Thu August 21, 2008, 4:36 am |
On April 20, 1939, Billie Holiday recorded the song Strange Fruit . Written by a Jewish schoolteacher, Abel Meeropol, it became an instant hit and to this day serves as a poignant protest song against injustice. It is also an example?along with i...
Thu July 17, 2008, 11:17 am |
Locally we've had our share of musical tribute shows, productions that feature performers with a talent for imitating the singer being honored. Subjects have included Patsy Cline, Woody Guthrie, Billie Holiday, Johnny Cash, and Janis Joplin, among ot...
Thu July 17, 2008, 2:13 am |
Novelist Nelson Algren and singer Billie Holiday are two iconic figures of mid-20th-century American culture, though Holiday's name and visage--not to mention her voice--is surely better-known and remembered than Algren's is today....
Tue July 15, 2008, 7:44 am |
The great, great blues singer Billie Holiday died this week (July 17) in 1959. At the time of her death, the result of both drug and alcohol abuse, she was actually under house arrest for drug possession. Billie Holiday lived a hard life....
Sun July 13, 2008, 6:08 am |
A brief look at Billie Holiday's tragic life and career...
Mon July 7, 2008, 10:16 am |
Gordon Polatnick's business plan, he concedes, was heavy on the things that fueled his daydreams and too light on almost everything else. The idea itself was simple. On the blocks in Harlem where Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker perf...
Sat July 5, 2008, 3:28 am |
A New Orleans institution of funk-jazz-blues and a 32-year-old singer who constantly gets compared to Billie Holiday should give Interlochen one of the fullest double billings of the summer....
Fri June 20, 2008, 8:58 am |
An ITV presenter has blamed a ?hole in the health and safety law? for his daughter's drowning. Ian Clayton, 48, said that river canoe hire was ?stupidly unregulated?, after the misadventure verdict into the drowning of Billie Holiday Clayton....
Wed June 18, 2008, 4:48 pm |
Great American musicians John Philip Sousa, Billie Holiday, George Gershwin and Delaware?s own Clifford Brown will be brought back to life during the 10th annual Chautauqua Tent Show that will take place in Lewes, Sunday-Wednesday, June 22-25....
Tue June 17, 2008, 8:00 am |
ITV Yorkshire presenter Ian Clayton held back tears as he told an inquest of the tragic events that led to the death of his nine-year-old daughter, Billie Holiday, during an outing on the River Wye in Mid Wales in April 2006. (17/06/2008 10:13:23)...
Tue June 17, 2008, 4:20 am |
One day while listening to the renowned Billie Holiday sing "Good Morning Heartbreak" on television, Joanna Pascale, then 13, told her mother she wanted to be a singer....
Thu June 12, 2008, 11:35 pm |
The Esquire lives again! Richard Burnett When my dad immigrated to Montreal in 1950, arriving on the ocean liner Lythia at the ripe old age of 21, he discovered a wide-open city, frequented Toe Blake's tavern, checked out the floorshows at the Bellev...
Wed June 11, 2008, 10:43 pm |
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