New Orleans Jazz Festival Canceled Second Year In A Row Due To Spike In COVID-19 Cases

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New Orleans Jazz Festival Canceled Second Year In A Row Due To Spike In COVID-19 Cases

Its organizers shared the announcement on Sunday and cited Louisana's rise in coronavirus cases as the reason that the annual festival was canceled

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Ella Fitzgerald, First Lady of Song, born. In 1934, an awkward sixteen-year-old girl made her singing debut at the Harlem Apollo Theatre amateur night in New York City. She intended to dance, but she lost her nerve when she got on stage. The man said, do something while youre out there, the singer

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1918

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1841

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1793

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1940

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1918

Morris, Morris W. / Lewis Morrison (1845-1906)

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1845

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1874

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1868

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1920

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1926

Elliott, Robert Brown (1842–1884)

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1884

(1920) Archibald Grimke, “The Shame of America, or the Negro’s Case Against the Republic”

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17

1956

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11

1925

Mathis, Johnny (1935 - )

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1935

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1997

Race, Gender, Jazz & Local 493: Black Women Musicians in Seattle: 1920-1955

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