Tribute to Odetta

Performances @ the Schomburg presents

Women’s Jazz Festival:
In Tribute to Odetta: This Little Light Of Mine
with Bernice Johnson Reagon, Lizz Wright and Toshi Reagon

Monday, March 28, 7pm

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
New York Public Library
515 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan
(directions)

As both a woman and musician Odetta was a pioneer. There were others who had introduced African American songs and singing to the concert stage before she began her work. However, Odetta plowed a new road of expression and information as she wove together her distinctively powerful voice, her understanding of the classical approach, and a masterfully curated gathering of songs from a wide breath of American history and experience. Her repertoire included work songs, prison songs, freedom songs of the Civil Rights movement, blues, spirituals, and great American ballads. She could not be held to a category and her signature delivery of conviction and focus could reveal each song as a living poem, continuously unfolding in perspective and meaning.

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