NON-FICTION By Samuel J Fell Monash University Publishing, $36.99 From the 1970s into the 1990s, Sydney’s inner-city corner pubs teemed with beer-pit audiences lapping up local bands. Live music was the default option for countless people on a night out, and some bands could happily pack out multiple residencies each…
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When actor Zahra Newman saw Audra McDonald play Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill on Broadway in 2014, she immediately had two thoughts. “One, that I definitely wanted to try and do it,” she recalls, “and the second that I was terrified! I felt that I…