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Holiday at the Howland
Author, performer will evoke jazz singer If any artist in history could have benefited from better public relations, Billie Holiday fits the bill. Maligned by the press and broadcast media during her lifetime, authors and film producers exploited her legacy after she drank herself to death in 1959 at age 44. To set the record straight about the beloved jazz singer, Paul Alexander, author of Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year, will read from his book and interview Mala Waldron, Holiday's goddaughter, at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon on Sunday (June…
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