Spirit Muse Sunday WHEN THAT MIGHTY SPIRIT MOVES

The Spirited Move Too

ODETTA
1930-2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odetta

October 21 2011

92 year old Pete Seeger marched down Broadway to Occupy Columbus Circle in solidarity for the 99% Occupy Wall Street movement.

David Amram, Arlo Guthrie, and Tao Chapin sang
"This Little Light of Mine"

Odetta was there too
In spirit.

October 22 2011

Every time I think of Pete Seeger, I think about the past,

my past.

At 16 years, I was listening to folk music

because A girl I admired played the guitar and sang.

Mirium Mekeba, Joan Baez, Mimi Farina,

and Odetta moved me.

1958

This is the first song I ever heard Odetta sing.

I learned it by heart.

 Then These Two

'The Midnight Special'
slides right into

'This Little Light Of Mine'

 Which is what they sang at Columbus circle last night .

 

 Last Word: Odetta

 The entire video Documentary from The New York Times 

Runs approximately 18 Minutes

here

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/arts/20081203_odetta.html

"If only one could be sure that every fifty years

a voice and a soul like Odetta's would come along,

the centuries would pass so quickly and painlessly

we would hardly recognize time."

-Maya Angelou-