‘STRANGE FRUIT’ BY BILLIE HOLIDAY | Legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday adapted “Strange Fruit” from a poem written by Jewish-American teacher Abel Meeropol. The song was a soulful indictment of the ...

In March 1939, a then-23-year-old Billie Holiday closed out her set at New York's Cafe Society with a song she hadn't performed before: "Strange Fruit." Written by Jewish schoolteacher Abel Meeropol, ...

START THIS MORNING SHOW. LET’S LEARN ABOUT THE RETURN OF A LOCAL MUSIC FESTIVAL. YEAH, THE STRANGE FRUIT MUSIC FESTIVAL IS THIS SATURDAY IN LEBAUER PARK. THIS ANNUAL EVENT IS HOSTED BY THE TRIAD BASED ...

Fishbone — who are back with almost their entire original lineup for the first time since 1993 (everyone except guitarist Kendall Jones) — revealed earlier this year that they’re working on a new ...

Few songs capture the feeling of a people in exile like “Eretz Zavat Halav.” Taken from a biblical passage, it speaks of Israel’s abundant natural produce (milk and honey, especially), from the ...

Bettye LaVette spent the morning doing yard work at her home in West Orange, New Jersey. After that, she exercised, and now she’s thinking about dinner. “I have never seen so much repetition in my ...