I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

The Ella Fitzgerald Music Festival is designed to teach the region's youth of the musical legacy of Fitzgerald and jazz. Her material at this time represented a departure from her typical jazz repertoire.

Fitzgerald was a notable interpreter of the Great American Songbook. Over the course of her 59-year recording career Ella Fitzgerald sold 40 million copies of her 70 plus albums won 13 Grammy Awards and was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H.