Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song

Wednesday, January 31

7:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Members Free | Non-Members $10 | Free Livestream

Music historian Judith Tick takes on a music-filled journey through the life of American music titan, Ella Fitzgerald at the Concord Museum. In the first major biography since Fitzgerald’s death, Professor Tick draws on deep archival research, family interviews, and newly available recordings and concert footage to show how the musician fused a Black vocal aesthetic with mainstream popular repertoire to revolutionize American music.