Billy Holiday News

Join The Whelk in saying NO THANKS! Pop Post Punk Party for the easily annoyed. At 1PM EST, I mean.

Dee Dee Bridgewater lives her life with her ears open. Speaking by phone last week from her home outside Las Vegas, a reporter's typing on the other end of the line distracted her and led her to mention how she typed 120 words a minute and wrote shorthand years ago.

Jazzman Ed Polcer and his Swingtet will recreate the magic of New Yorka s 52nd Street in a Xavier Masters of Swing concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct.

Billie Holiday statue on a big rig being delivered to Billie Holiday Plaza, Pennsylvania Avenue & Lafayette Avenue The recently restored Billy Holiday statue is returning to the corner of Lafayette and Pennsylvania avenues in Baltimore.

Word came out last year that Jack Johnsona s Brushfire Records had signed their first female artist and, when the labela s Christmas album arrived, her song was the superb standout of the collection.

BILLIE HOLIDAY, the new Poet Laureate and a giant whale all combine at The Dukes this autumn, as the Lancaster venue announces its biggest ever programme of touring work.

Hear Billie Holiday sing the blues for Georgian Court's Gilded Age matriarch Edith Gould and a few of her closest friends "you" at this unique interactive theatrical performance and elegant tea party.