The Kay Swift Trust is delighted to announce the long-awaited publication of The Kay Swift Songbook by Alfred Music. This first-ever songbook introduces a new generation of pianists and vocalists to the inventive and melodic songs of this important contributor to the Great American Songbook. Buy it here:

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Katharine Weber's new memoir, The Memory Of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family's Legacy of Infidelities has just been published.

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The 2004 PS Classics recording of Fine and Dandy is available on CD.

The Kay Swift biography by Vicki Ohl (Yale University Press, 2004) is available from Amazon and for Kindle.

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George Gershwin and Kay Swift: An Evening of Song and Television
Christine Ebersole, Klea Blackhurst and Jimmy Ray Bennett were at the Paley Center for Media on May 15th, 2008, to perform the songs of George Gershwin and Kay Swift. Artistic Advisor to the Kay Swift Trust Aaron Gandy provided commentary interspersed with rare radio and television clips from the Paley Center's collection on how the lives of these two songwriters intersected in the twenties and thirties.

The Kay Swift Memorial Trust has several projects in development including:
  • Staging of a post-modern adaptation of Fine and Dandy, with a new book by Jimmy Ray Bennett, now in development with frequent readings
  • Publication of Kay Swift's chamber music and other works
  • A reissue of Kay Swift's 1943 autobiographical novel Who Could Ask For Anything More? paired with elements of her unpublished memoir
  • Performance of the 1934 Balanchine ballet Alma Mater

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