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Cassandra Wilson at Ridgefield Playhouse
Courtesy of Lisa Barrett | Posted on November 7, 2014
Where
Ridgefield Playhouse
80 East Ridge Avenue
Ridgefield, CT
Map
203-438-9748
When
Thu, March 26, 2015
8:00 pm
Save the date
Musicians
Cassandra Wilson
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Coming Forth By Day: A Celebration of Billie Holiday
Cassandra Wilson, perhaps the greatest living jazz singer, comes to the Carolina Theatre to offer a special tribute concert to Billie Holiday on the centennial of Lady Day’s birth. Wilson has the goods to honor Holiday: TIME magazine recognized her as “America’s best singer” and “the true heir of Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.”
The New York Times noted approvingly that Wilson possesses “a contralto as rich and as supple as vintage leather,” with a distinctive “earthy majesty.” The BBC went further in describing her spectacular voice: “husky yet smooth, like sand mixed with honey, it’s sophisticated, wise, and sexy all at the same time, and seems to plug right in to the history of black American music.”