Word: odetta
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...ODETTA SINGS FOLK SONGS (RCA Victor). Among misery shouters, Odetta has no equal, but here her laments are moody, her voice quietly her own, her songs familiar but seldom so well sung...
Salt & Pepper. At the Memorial, the first order of business was a program of professional entertainment. Folk Singers Joan Baez, Josh White, Odetta, Bob Dylan, Peter-Paul-and-Mary rendered hymns and civil rights songs. Actor Marlon Brando brandished an electric cattle prod of the sort sometimes used by cops against civil rights demonstrations. Author James Baldwin, Actors Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston made appearances. And onetime Folies-Bergère Star Josephine Baker looked out at the biracial crowd and snapped satisfiedly: "Salt and pepper-just what it should...
...Cahn's music is just half the story of Rolf Cahn the person. He was in Berkeley when Odetta was learning to play the guitar; he was in Los Angeles and Chicago when the folk music movements there were in their infancy; and he has influenced more than any other single person the music being played and sung in the coffee houses of Boston and Cambridge...
Barbara Dane is one of the many important folk singers whose music bears the stamp of an encounter with Rolf Cahn. Jackie Washington, Debbie Green, Odetta, Jim Kweskin, Tom Rush, Molly Scott and countless others both famous and obscure have also been influenced directly by Cahn and his music...
...Wild, piano soloist, and Arthur Fielder, with a symphony group (July 7-8); a Weekend of Jazz with Dave Brubeck and the Modern Jazz Quartet, and Duke Ellington and Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross (July 14-15); Ferrente & Teicher, duo-paints, (July 21-22); a Weekend of Folk Music with Odetta and Pete Seeger, and The Weavers and John White (July 28-29); The Kingston Trio (August 4-5); Carlos Montoya, Flamenco guitarist (August 11-12); and Leon Fleischer, pianist (August...