Bessie Smith

Johnny Cash, Billie Holiday, Woody Guthrie, & more may become statues in Trump's 'Garden of American Heroes'

Also on the list for Trump’s proposed monument garden: Elvis Presley, Louis Armstrong, Irving Berlin, Ray Charles, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Frank Sinatra, and many more.

Stealing Sheep tell us about starting their U.S. tour when COVID-19 hit, share quarantine playlist

”We were in a surreal position of being in the most exciting city in the world counting down the days we could leave and hoping for our own ruby slippers moment.” — UK trio Stealing Sheep on their experience of being in NYC when COVID-19 hit.

Rhiannon Giddens, Courtney Marie Andrews & more paid tribute to women rock pioneers in NYC (pics)

Wednesday night’s program, ”The Motherlode,” paid tribute to Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and others through performances by Amina Claudine Myers, Courtney Marie Andrews, Rhiannon Giddens, Cleo Reed, Lizz Wright, Charenee Wade, Valerie Simpson and more.