Odetta News

Broken Social Scene celebrated the end of the work week with an epic mainstage rock show at the Ottawa Folk Festival.

A full moon low in the sky behind the main stage, Rufus Wainwright closed out the 15th annual Ottawa Folk Festival on the main stage last night.

The Bardavon 1869 Opera House and City of Poughkeepsie will present the 13th annual Hudson River Arts Festival on Sept.

The Bardavon and City of Poughkeepsie will present the 13th annual Hudson River Arts Festvial on Saturday, September 20.

At 8 p.m. Saturday, the Earlville Opera House will welcomes back Odetta, whose career exploring folk, blues and gospel won her the NEA Medal of the Arts and has made her famous the world over.

Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan have cited Odetta as a major influence on their careers.

“I was only booked to do three songs but it must have gone well because an encore was demanded, and that must have gone well because people were whooping and hollering.”

Matt & Jo are on the search for Melbourne's most loveable fuglies! See our final top ten entrants! More HAMISH & ANDY "Toughest Decision of My Life" Hamish & Andy have finally picked the gravy flavour for their ... via The Age

Singer-songwriter Melanie DeMore sings in the African-American folk tradition of Odetta and has shared the stage with the likes of Buffy Saint Marie, Ani DiFranco, Sweet Honey in the Rock and Pete Seeger. via The Union

“We do need a new sound system and media center”

Soul singer Odetta, acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke and actor Jeff Daniels have all performed at Marquette's Kaufman Auditorium. via The Mining Journal

Celebrate the season and the rising of the sap with Sloop Clearwater's second annual Spring Splash! Sunday. via Poughkeepsie Journal

Posted: Monday, March 24, 2008 ; Updated: 8:22 AM on Monday, March 24, 2008 Don't miss songwriter/performer Magda Hiller at Live at the Larimer this Friday. via St. Augustine Record

“The songs for this project are ones that I normally would not put on my studio-produced albums but I still wanted to share them with people”

Local recording artist to debut new material in house concert, on home-produced CD Singer/songwriter Chad Elliott will launch his latest CD with a house concert on March 29 at the home of Martin Arthur of ... via Spencer Daily Reporter

Music , posted by Editor, Pacific Sun Online, 1 hour ago "Unfortunately, there will always be a place for protest songs," says 77-year-old singer Odetta, heralded as the unofficial queen of American folk music, ... via Pacific Sun

“The Holmes Brothers are juke-joint vets with a brazenly borderless view of American music.”

Holmes Brothers to appear at Music and Arts Festival Brian Hineline 31.JAN.08 A trio that combines the roar of the roadhouse and the reverence of the church will headline this year's Honesdale Roots & Rhythm ... via The Weekly Almanac

“If you look at statistics around African-Americans and Latinos - in particular in terms of health, education, housing - they are still way behind where folks are who are white”

Words and music celebrating diversity, equality and justice echoed throughout the county yesterday as civic leaders and residents gathered to observe Martin Luther King Jr. via San Diego Union-Tribune

“The meaning of the breakfast, the opportunity that the breakfast allows is for people of different values, beliefs, faiths, ethnicities to all come together and find some common ground”

Several events took place around San Diego on Monday to honor slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King. via NBC San Diego

WNYC presents highlights from "Songs of the Spirit," a concert series that promotes interfaith and intercultural unity through music. via WNYC-AM New York

“Next to our parents, our teachers may be the most important people in our lives”

Remember your favorite teacher and the impact that he or she had on your life? Rosie O'Donnell, Bill Cosby, Cynthia Nixon , and Tim McCarver of Fox Sports recall theirs as they lead this all-star tribute to ... via WGBH

“But we found we were being offered more singing jobs, which paid better, so we decided to give it six months, just focus on the music for that time, then go back to the real job of acting. If we'd been serious about it, it would never have worked.”

Liam Clancy's Irish spirt burns on By Sue Wilson TODAY IT'S seen as the hoariest of folk-music cliches but the Aran sweater was once a groundbreaking example of pop-culture branding. via Sunday Herald