I just found out, thanks to my friend, Jeff – there’s a documentary about the late, great Eva Cassidy, and you can watch it free, right now, right here:
A new article by the great John Kelly in the Washington Post tells the story of Eva beautifully, just just a quick excerpt:
“ Every few years a new group of fans discovers Eva Cassidy and learns her heartbreaking/heartwarming story. She grew up in Bowie, Md., in an artistic and musical family. She could sing anything but was drawn to an assortment of genres: folk songs, jazz standards, the American songbook.
With her band, Eva played two nights at Blues Alley in January 1996, recording the gig for a live album. She died that November.
From 1996: Echoes of a voice stilled too early
It was the English who first embraced Eva’s music. A wobbly, black-and-white video of her singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” was played on a BBC music program, lighting up the switchboards with viewers wanting to know what they’d seen.
“I went to England a couple of times to do radio and television interviews [after Eva’s death],” Chris said. “I would have people come up to me in the street and just start crying. They couldn’t talk. They were so emotional about how much Eva meant to them.”
Please read the entire article here
