Monday, February 14, 2005
FW: Odetta, Cullen Performance Hall, Thurs., Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m.
Odetta, "Songs for Social Change," Cullen Performance Hall, Thursday,
February 10, 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public.
Join us Thursday evening, February 10th, as the folk music legend Odetta
explores through song the last century's struggles over labor rights,
women's rights, and civil rights.
A participant in the 1963 March on Washington, Odetta has collaborated
with Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and Janis Joplin. For half a
century, she has been one of the most influential voices in American
folk music.
This event is sponsored by the University of Houston's U.S. Department
of Education Teaching American History grants and our partners, HISD,
the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Region IV Education Service
Center.
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DANG DANG DANG!!!
If I weren't doing more tech tonight I'd go...
I iron my hair and listen to Odetta...
Odetta's amazing, and I didn't even know this was happening...
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I went to this briefly, but wasn't all too keen on it. Lots of song explicating and 60s radical politics that don't seem so radical anymore.
Yeah, I was afraid of that...
Odetta DOES have a great voice, and I really dig some of the recordings I've heard of her...
sorry she just couldn't let the music speak for itself...
and remember it doesn't seem radical to you, but the fact is, we're losing now...we're fighting a lot of the same fights we were in the 60's...and we're losing this time...and I think it's because we already thought the fight was over and we won...
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