Joan Ellison
@joanellison.bsky.social
Singer of the Great American Songbook & loving restorer of Judy Garland's orchestral arrangements, living in Shaker Heights, Ohio 🌈
#KeeperOfTheFlame #RetroMusic #Symphony #OldHollywood #CleanAir
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#KeeperOfTheFlame #RetroMusic #Symphony #OldHollywood #CleanAir
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Joan Ellison
@joanellison.bsky.social
· Dec 12
I'm so excited to finally be able to announce this one! This coming July, I'll be making my Irish debut with the wonderful conductor Niall Kinsella!! Can't wait!! 🍀🌈
WEXFORD, 18 July: www.nationaloperahouse.ie/.../get-happ....
DUBLIN, 19 July: www.nch.ie/.../get-happ...
#judygarlandconcert #gethappy
WEXFORD, 18 July: www.nationaloperahouse.ie/.../get-happ....
DUBLIN, 19 July: www.nch.ie/.../get-happ...
#judygarlandconcert #gethappy
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Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
laist.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
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On the evening of November 21, 1934, 17-year-old Ella Fitzgerald won Amateur Night at Harlem’s Apollo Theater. A legendary career was born. #OnThisDay
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On the evening of November 21, 1934, 17-year-old Ella Fitzgerald won Amateur Night at Harlem’s Apollo Theater. A legendary career was born. #OnThisDay
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/a...
Newly Discovered Bach Pieces Are the Fruits of Decades of Detective Work
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November 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/a...
Grateful to have had this discussion about my musical journey with Lisa Koops and George Blake back in Jan., and it's now out on a podcast! We touch on piano lessons, orchestration, Judy Garland, musical memories, my young nephews and niece...and even martians!
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Parenting Musically • A podcast on Spotify for Creators
Parenting Musically explores ways to make music an important and meaningful part of our families’ lives. This podcast features interviews with well-known musicians and their parents paired with interv...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Grateful to have had this discussion about my musical journey with Lisa Koops and George Blake back in Jan., and it's now out on a podcast! We touch on piano lessons, orchestration, Judy Garland, musical memories, my young nephews and niece...and even martians!
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
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This is an example of “just because you can doesn’t mean you should”
#VintageFood
#VintageFood
November 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This is an example of “just because you can doesn’t mean you should”
#VintageFood
#VintageFood
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This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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Cleveland Public Square Voting Booth (1890). Source: Cleveland Public Library Digital Gallery.
November 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Cleveland Public Square Voting Booth (1890). Source: Cleveland Public Library Digital Gallery.
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Samhain, the thinning of the veil between the living and the spirit world. The beginning of the darker half of the year. The light this morning was lovely shortly after sunrise here in Glastonbury. #samhain
November 1, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Samhain, the thinning of the veil between the living and the spirit world. The beginning of the darker half of the year. The light this morning was lovely shortly after sunrise here in Glastonbury. #samhain
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“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”
The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
October 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”
The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
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Working on a column about the newly resurrected Committee for the First Amendment. Here are some essential reads that can inform this moment. #nowreading #history #politics #firstamendment
October 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Working on a column about the newly resurrected Committee for the First Amendment. Here are some essential reads that can inform this moment. #nowreading #history #politics #firstamendment
On Looking: Poet Lia Purpura on the Art of Noticing www.themarginalian.org/2025/09/04/l...
On Looking: Poet Lia Purpura on the Art of Noticing
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way,” William Blake wrote in his most spirited letter. “As a man is, so …
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September 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
On Looking: Poet Lia Purpura on the Art of Noticing www.themarginalian.org/2025/09/04/l...
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Breaking News: A hard-fought international treaty to protect ocean life, decades in the making, cleared a final hurdle. It allows for the establishment of enormous conservation zones in international waters.
Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle
The global High Seas Treaty, decades in the making, will become international law. It aims to create vast maritime conservation areas.
nyti.ms
September 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Breaking News: A hard-fought international treaty to protect ocean life, decades in the making, cleared a final hurdle. It allows for the establishment of enormous conservation zones in international waters.
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Amidst all the misery, some really great news.
Nations Ratify High Seas Treaty, Setting Stage for Greater Ocean Protection | Oceana
Oceana’s Chief Scientist Dr. Katie Matthews says, “For the first time, we have the legal foundation to safeguard marine diversity in waters that belong to everyone and no one at the same time. What ma...
oceana.org
September 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Amidst all the misery, some really great news.
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In 2021, high school journalists from our network of Student Reporting Labs asked educators in their schools about the significance of teaching 9/11, what the events meant to them, and why it’s important to study the history before and after that day. https://to.pbs.org/47isJrb
Educators reflect on the significance of teaching about 9/11
For their first assignment of the school year, high school journalists from our network of Student Reporting Labs asked educators in their schools about the significance of teaching 9/11, what the events meant to them, and why it’s important to study the history before and after that day.
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September 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
In 2021, high school journalists from our network of Student Reporting Labs asked educators in their schools about the significance of teaching 9/11, what the events meant to them, and why it’s important to study the history before and after that day. https://to.pbs.org/47isJrb
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On September 11, 2001, the unthinkable happened. Amid the smoke and chaos, New York’s first responders ran toward danger with unwavering courage.
343 @FDNY, 37 @theportauthority_ny_nj, and 23 NYPD lives were lost that day—and many more still suffer from its toll.
Their bravery lives on.
343 @FDNY, 37 @theportauthority_ny_nj, and 23 NYPD lives were lost that day—and many more still suffer from its toll.
Their bravery lives on.
September 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
On September 11, 2001, the unthinkable happened. Amid the smoke and chaos, New York’s first responders ran toward danger with unwavering courage.
343 @FDNY, 37 @theportauthority_ny_nj, and 23 NYPD lives were lost that day—and many more still suffer from its toll.
Their bravery lives on.
343 @FDNY, 37 @theportauthority_ny_nj, and 23 NYPD lives were lost that day—and many more still suffer from its toll.
Their bravery lives on.
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Classic SESAME STREET is coming to YouTube.
With new shows airing on PBS the same day they debut on Netflix, there will soon be multiple ways to watch the show for free — while also expanding reach via the 2 most dominant streaming platforms.
www.engadget.com/entertainmen... #SesameStreet #TVSky
With new shows airing on PBS the same day they debut on Netflix, there will soon be multiple ways to watch the show for free — while also expanding reach via the 2 most dominant streaming platforms.
www.engadget.com/entertainmen... #SesameStreet #TVSky
Sesame Street's new partnership with YouTube will bring 'hundreds of full episodes' to the video platform
YouTube and Sesame Workshop have agreed to a new deal that will bring full episodes of Sesame Street to the platform.
www.engadget.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Classic SESAME STREET is coming to YouTube.
With new shows airing on PBS the same day they debut on Netflix, there will soon be multiple ways to watch the show for free — while also expanding reach via the 2 most dominant streaming platforms.
www.engadget.com/entertainmen... #SesameStreet #TVSky
With new shows airing on PBS the same day they debut on Netflix, there will soon be multiple ways to watch the show for free — while also expanding reach via the 2 most dominant streaming platforms.
www.engadget.com/entertainmen... #SesameStreet #TVSky
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NEWS: A House of Representatives Subcommittee just voted to continue library funding in next year's federal budget. This is thanks to YOUR hard work as library advocates.
The fight to #FundLibraries isn't over yet. Stay tuned for more ways to take action for libraries. #ForOurLibraries
The fight to #FundLibraries isn't over yet. Stay tuned for more ways to take action for libraries. #ForOurLibraries
September 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
NEWS: A House of Representatives Subcommittee just voted to continue library funding in next year's federal budget. This is thanks to YOUR hard work as library advocates.
The fight to #FundLibraries isn't over yet. Stay tuned for more ways to take action for libraries. #ForOurLibraries
The fight to #FundLibraries isn't over yet. Stay tuned for more ways to take action for libraries. #ForOurLibraries
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COVID-19 rates in the Southwestern United States reached 12.5% — the highest in the nation. It comes as California students, for example, return to the classroom after RFK Jr. nixed the CDC’s recommendation that they receive booster shots.
www.latimes.com/science/stor...
www.latimes.com/science/stor...
COVID surges nationwide with highest rates in Southwest as students return to school
COVID-19 rates in the Southwestern United States reached 12.5% — the highest in the nation. It comes as California students return to the classroom after RFK Jr. nixed the CDC's recommendation that th...
www.latimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
COVID-19 rates in the Southwestern United States reached 12.5% — the highest in the nation. It comes as California students, for example, return to the classroom after RFK Jr. nixed the CDC’s recommendation that they receive booster shots.
www.latimes.com/science/stor...
www.latimes.com/science/stor...
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August 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Financial support from people like you has long been a pillar of public media. Now, your support is essential.
If you’ve already given — thank you! Here are a few comments from supporters like you.
If you haven't given yet, click here to keep free, independent journalism strong: n.pr/458sOhq
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If you haven't given yet, click here to keep free, independent journalism strong: n.pr/458sOhq
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mRNA Vaccine Tech Could Transform Medicine and Cure Diseases. RFK, Jr. Just Pulled Its Funding.
mRNA Vaccines Are a Game-Changer—Here’s Why
Speed and flexibility have made mRNA a blockbuster technology
www.scientificamerican.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
mRNA Vaccine Tech Could Transform Medicine and Cure Diseases. RFK, Jr. Just Pulled Its Funding.