Odetta dies three weeks after cancelled Coronado show
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:03am Georgette Braun
“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.
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1. hokumboy | December 3rd, 2008 at 12:03 pm
We’ve lost quite a few of the folk icons this year:
Odetta, Erik Darling ( of the Rooftop Singers), John Stewart & Nick Reynolds (two founders of the Kingston Trio) , Miriam Makeba, and Utah Phillips. And,,, the Patron Saint of Chicago, Studs Terkel.
2. hokumboy | December 4th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Here’s a video obit for Odetta from the NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/arts/20081203_odetta.html?hp.
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