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Volume 70, Issue 87,
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
News Folk icon, activist to play UH on Thursday Cougar News Services Odetta, a famed folk singer and champion of civil rights, will perform "Songs of Social Change" on Thursday at Cullen Performance Hall. Odetta trained as a classical musician, but got involved with the folk scene in San Francisco coffeehouses in the early 1950s. In New York, she caught the attention of Pete Seeger and Harry Belafonte, who helped introduce her to a wider audience. In 1954, Odetta made her recording debut with The Tin Angel. She worked to promote civil and women's rights in the 1960s, and in 1963 she participated in the March on Washington. She has collaborated with a number of prominent artists in her career, including Seeger, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Joan Baez. In 1999, Odetta got the National Endowment for the Arts' Medal of the Arts from former President Bill Clinton. Odetta's UH performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Cullen Performance Hall. The event is free and open to the public. The concert is sponsored by the U.S. Department of
Education's Teaching American History Grant Partners, including the UH
College of Education and Department of History, the Houston Independent
School District, the Region IV Education Service Center and the Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston.
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