This month we’ll be discussing Odetta: A Life in Music and Protest by Ian Zack.

Join us on the lower level of the Martha Canfield Library in Arlington on Wednesday, Oct. 20 at 12 noon.  We open the side door to make it possible to enter the meeting room without going through the library upstairs.

Some members may remember Odetta’s appearance on a Harry Belafonte special. On Dec. 10, 1959, CBS, broadcast a prime-time special called “Tonight With Belafont.” Here is a YouTube video of her performance of “Water Boy.”

To wet your appetite for reading the biography, read this New York Times Book Review.