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Rosetta Tharpe, who helped turn gospel sounds into rock ’n’ roll, mentors newcomer in Northlight play

‘Marie & Rosetta’ depicts a pairing of singers whose made ‘intoxicating’ music together, playwright says.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘The theatricality of that costume is off the scale’: celebrating two centuries of diva fashion

From Victorian opera singers to Debbie Harry, a new exhibition celebrates the historic and iconoclastic fashion of women in charge of their own destinies

The Guardian - UK

Deborah Jane’s ‘Strange Fruit’ Film Revisits The Past To Fix The Future In Racial Reconciliation

Jane understands the importance of locating the problem to get to the solution.

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Turning 96, Chicago jazz guitarist George Freeman is still playing and about to release a new record

To celebrate his birthday, Freeman and his band are playing two shows at the Green Mill in Uptown.

Chicago Sun-Times

How to spend a day in Fells Point, Baltimore’s seafood-loving, historic neighbourhood

With the oldest saloon in the US, iconic seafood stops and a reimagined 18th-century market, the Maryland ’hood offers the perfect blend of old and new, writes Richard Franks

The Independent UK

Women who rock: as a new Sky documentary launches, we look at its pick of music’s female pioneers

Ahead of Sky’s new documentary about female artists, we take a look at those, from Nancy Wilson to Chaka Khan, who made waves on and off-stage

Evening Standard

Intimate portrait of Billie Holiday emerges in Mercury Theater’s multifaceted ‘Lady Day’

Running at the snug Mercury Theater’s Venus Cabaret space, “Lady Day” stands as a showcase for Holiday and the actress playing her, Alexis J. Roston.

Chicago Sun-Times

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50 years ago, these were the No. 1 albums of 1973 (and a few other classics, too)

In 1973 the album charts got weird. Sure, there were classic albums by iconic artists such as Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones and Elton John that topped the charts that year. Two different ones in Elton’s case.

The Orange County Register

How Tyler Perry offered a 2-word theme and songwriter Ruth B. brought tears to his eyes

In the Jim Crow South of the 1930s and '40s, in poor, rural Georgia, forbidden love struggles up through the briars. The teens, Bayou and Leanne, find they can be together only in the dead of night, signaling each other with paper planes. The message received, they head for their…

Los Angeles Times

Well noted: A selection of some music-themed gifts this year

The Associated Press is recommending for music lovers gifts including vinyl box sets by Neil Young, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, Paul McCartney and heavy metal icon Iron Maiden

The Independent UK

How 2022 Mercury Prize winner Little Simz took over the world

Seven years after her debut album, the London based rapper is finally getting the industry recognition she deserves.

Evening Standard

The best theatre to stream this month: Billie Holiday’s blues, McKellen’s Lear and Newsies

Our roundup of stage shows to watch at home includes a Tony award-winning musical, international dance and a radical dramatisation of the crucifixion story

The Guardian - UK

Anne-Louise Sarks puts women centrestage in her first Melbourne Theatre Company season as artistic director

The first season from Anne-Louise Sarks features plays about a bohemian art museum founder, the way the legal system fails women, and two sisters seeking revenge.

ABC News

Mable John death: First female solo artist on Motown Records dies at 91

Singer went on the road with Ray Charles, and shared bills with Billie Holiday

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TV tonight: treat yourself to Cynthia Erivo’s incredible voice at the Proms

The Grammy-winning singer covers hits by Nina Simone and Billie Holiday. Plus: grave consequences in BBC Four’s Norwegian oil boom drama. Here’s everything to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

They got rhythm: the interwar British dance bands who pointed towards pop

Music stars of the 1920s and 1930s, including Spike Hughes and Reginald Foresythe, transformed American jazz to suit British tastes, explains Bob Stanley in an extract from his book charting the birth of pop

Salon

Norah Jones talks "Come Away With Me"

The musician looks back with Salon at her insanely successful debut record: "No one expected me not to be myself"

The Guardian - UK

Pavarotti, Billie Holiday and me: the secrets of what makes a great singer

As a young opera singer, I was snobbish about the Three Tenors – but a legendary Pavarotti performance made me realise that the key wasn’t vocal pyrotechnics, but emotional connection

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Ziggy bows out, Madonna scares the pope and Dylan goes electric: 50 gigs that changed music

Five decades after David Bowie’s seminal tour, our music writers reflect on the concerts that have left a mark, from Billie Holiday to Billie Eilish

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