Odetta dies three weeks after cancelled Coronado show
2 comments December 3rd, 2008
“Odetta, the singer whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan,” according to this New York Times story (and photo). She was 77. The cause was heart disease, said her manager, Doug Yeager. She had been hoping to sing at Barack Obama’s inauguration, according to her manager, and a post by “hokumboy” at the Register Star.
She was to have appeared at the Coronado Performing Arts Center in Rockford Nov. 14, but cancelled because of illness.
