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650 Miles -- The Legacy of Ossie Davis Huffington Post (blog) I was working with Odetta, when Ossie passed. Odetta had been friends-in- arms with Dee and Davis, throughout their respective careers. When I was contacted by one of the organizers to help raise the endowment, it was at Odetta's suggestion, ...
Musical odyssey: Joe Henry brings acoustic 'Reverie' to town Chicago Sun-Times The bass, drums, piano and Henry's voice and guitar touch on the longing tones of folk-gospel in “Odetta,” and blues-tango in “Sticks and Stones,” reminiscent of “Stop,” his ballad that his wife Melanie Ciccone passed along to her sister Madonna ...
Black History: Odetta Who2 (blog) In honor of Black History Month, we've added another activist-entertainer to our files: Odetta, the folk singer who came to fame in the 1960s for her powerful voice in protest songs. Odetta died in late 2008 -- her heart gave out on December 2nd.
Nashville instrumentalist Tom Smith Playing at Music Max in Palo Cedro A News Cafe Smith, who says he has been playing “for a while” and performing for “nearly that long” has performed with such notables as Tuck and Pattie, John Fahey, Michael Hedges, Odetta, and John Hammond. He has released 5 highly acclaimed CDs, and has a just ...
Hope, dignity & the human spirit Corvallis Gazette Times Broadway actress and Tony Award nominee Tsidii LeLoka, a native of South Africa who grew up under apartheid, is drawing deeply from that music — and from the life and careers of three famed women singers, Mariam Makeba, Nina Simone and Odetta — to ...
'Lonesome Traveler' Finds Good Company Laguna Beach Independent Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, the Carter family, the Weavers, the Kingston Trio, Leadbelly, Odetta, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary and Bob Dylan. To many, those musical icons, along with countless lesser knowns singing and playing in homes, ...
Be the Best Gravy You Can Be: 'The Wavy Gravy Movie: Saint Misbehavin' PopMatters He ran with the artists emerging from that heady proto-hippie scene, befriending burgeoning stars like Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, and Odetta, and appears to have been a key figure in the development of that influential little cosmos.
Folk-blues ace Eric Bibb performs Feb. 3 in Ojai Ventura County Star Family friends included Pete Seeger, Odetta and actor/singer/activist Paul Robeson. Bibb got his first steel-string guitar when he was 7 and, by the time he was in junior high school, he was consumed by music. "I would cut school and claim I was sick," ...
Ottawa High honors Hall of Fame inductees MyWebTimes.com Keith Clark brought many leading folk musicians to perform concerts in Ottawa, including Pete Seeger, Odetta, blues legends Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, as well as many others. In 1962 he moved to Palo Alto, Calif., continuing his teaching and ...
