Emilie Sings Billie A 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Life and Music of Lady Day

Emilie Sings Billie

A 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Life and Music of Lady Day

Bewley's Cafe Theatre, Dec 2009

"This year sees the 50th Anniversary of Billie Holiday's untimely death and in honour of that, I am revisiting "Emilie Sings Billie" with an Anniversary Celebration of Lady Day's life and music. Much is made of the dark side of Billie Holiday but I think to take this focus is to oversimplify and sensationalize. To me, Billie Holiday was a very sensitive very gifted and very independent minded lady about 30 years ahead of her time. She said and sang what thought and felt and that made her controversial. Her honesty and her humanity is beautiful and inspirational and its all there in her music. Joining me in Bewley's on the 2nd Dec will be Johnny Taylor, piano, Dave Fleming, bass and Dominic Mullan, drums. :)"