Odetta News

A tribute to folk musician and civil rights activist Odetta Holmes has been produced by Wears the Trousers magazine, which highlights the world of women in music, and all profits from sales of the album will be split between Fawcett and the Women's Resource Centre .

This lilting spiritual describe the glorious presence all around the glory manger.

Odetta- "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement" >> Posted By mysticdave 21 hours, 16 minutes ago in Political Opinion Odetta Holmes, , known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her musical repertoire consisted largely of ...

Don't be surprised if you run into Pete Seeger, Janis Joplin, Jackie Washington, Maria Muldaur, Odetta, and other folk icons while you're window shopping in Harvard Square.

Local ballad singer Jane Birdsong will take the stage at the Randolph County Community Arts Center's Brown Bag Lunch Concert at noon Wednesday.

Kat : In probably the best moment of the album, Holly Near , Pat Humphries and Sandy O's voices combine on the chorus with "Don't you rock 'em daddy-o, don't you rock 'em daddy-o." It's a moment that recalls "Oh River" from Holly's last album Show Up .

Radio Icon George Taylor Morris who was most recently the daily morning host on XM Satellite Radio's 'Deep Tracks' classic rock channel and was the primary host of the company's "XM Artist Confidential" series, an all-star interview program that featured music stars ranging from Paul McCartney and Willie Nelson to Faith Hill and the late folk great ...

Muddy Waters first played the Newport Folk Festival in 1960. The Newport Folk Festival will mark its 50th anniversary next weekend with a lineup that includes Pete Seeger and other musicians who performed at the first festival in 1959.

That's what a national TV newscast asked one night in 1966. Dylan had just smashed himself up in a motorcycle accident in the Ulster County Town of Woodstock, where he lived for much of the '60s. The rumors were flying as fast as the spitfire words to "Subterranean Homesick Blues." IF YOU GO What: Bob Dylan and His Band, John Mellencamp, Willie ...

A few weeks ago, in an elongated, procrastinatory trolling of YouTube, I came across this amazing video of the folk singer Odetta performing at the Newport Folk Festival in the early 1960s.

In 1985, Radoslav Lorkovic played at the first Blues Fest. At last year's festival, Radoslav was the piano man with the Holmes Brothers.