Odetta, the classically trained folk, blues and gospel singer who used her powerfully rich and dusky voice to champion African-American music and civil rights issues for more than half a century ...

NORTH ADAMS — Gina Coleman vividly remembers when she met her idol, Odetta Holmes, the renowned folk singer and civil rights advocate who took the genre by storm during the 1960s and 70s. She ...

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater held its season preview Thursday, introducing two works, Ulysses Dove’s “Bad Blood,” restaged by Masazumi Chaya, and excerpts of Matthew Rushing’s “Odetta,” based on ...

On the night of May 30, 1964, the Alabama-born singer Odetta watched a thunderstorm explode over Brussels from her room at the Amigo hotel. She was on her first European tour, promoting her twelfth ...

THE power and influence of folk singer Odetta Holmes, or simply Odetta, does not have a ready comparison in an Internet world. Her death at age 77 is less about time and generations than cultural and ...

Reporting from New York — At the start of “Odetta,” dancer Hope Boykin, the warmest of earth mothers and costumed in fire-and-earth tones, skims alone over the stage with an undulating spine and ...

In 1959, Harry Belafonte produced and starred in a live prime-time special that he envisioned as a musical portrait of black America. He had the box-office clout to call the shots, which included an ...

Hope Boykin brings the famed folk singer Odetta Holmes to life as the star of the new Alvin Ailey production “Odetta.” The spectacular show celebrates an artist who influenced American music for half ...

Folk-music legend Odetta died Tuesday at the age of 77. In this 2005 interview, she discusses her long and diverse career. Odetta Holmes Felious Gordon has shaped American folk music for more than 50 ...

Odetta, the singer whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died Tuesday. She was 77. The cause was heart disease, said her manager, ...

Activist and singer Odetta has died. She was 77 years old. When you talk to some of the most famous singers in America, they'll tell you she inspired the way they sing. In fact, Bob Dylan once said ...