Mar 30, 2023 - Sale 2631

Sale 2631 - Lot 209

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Promotional flier for Billie Holiday's canceled final concert in London. Illustrated handbill, 8 x 5 inches, reading "Harold Davison presents: The only concert appearance of America's Lady of the Blues, Billie Holiday and Kenny Baker's Dozen, Royal Festival Hall"; minimal wear. London, 8 June [1958]
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A year before her death, Billie Holiday was booked for a single concert in London followed by a short tour of France. Political unrest in France caused those dates to be canceled, making the visit to London unviable. Holiday had one more European tour in France and Italy that October, and returned to London for a television appearance in February 1959.