A rail-thin New York radical who loved folk music, Pete Seeger loathed the business side and stuck by his principles, influencing younger stars like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Bruce Springsteen. Seeger ...
As part of their Summer School of Music classes, Boston musician Trevin Nelson will lead the special workshop “Pete Seeger: Folk Songs of Hope.” For people at any level, the class will explore the ...
Pete Seeger, who died on Tuesday at the age of 94, intended to be a journalist. Toward that end, he studied sociology at Harvard, but wanderlust led him away from books and on a bicycle tour of New ...
New Delhi: The audience at Delhi’s India International Centre erupted as Anthony ‘Tony’ Seeger picked up his banjo and ...
Pete Seeger, a 20th-century troubadour who inspired and led a renaissance of folk music in the United States with his trademark five-string banjo and songs of love, peace, brotherhood, work and ...
Seeger wrote hundreds of songs performed by greats in American Folk Music. Jan. 28, 2014— -- Legendary folk singer and activist Pete Seeger has died at age 94. Seeger’s record label, Appleseed ...
I must heartily disagree with my friend Amy Worden’s recent column on Pete Seeger’s depiction in the Bob Dylan film, “A Complete Unknown.” While a contemporary of Amy’s, I have never been a big folk ...
I had a friend, about 10 years ago in Chicago, who owned a banjo, but liked classical music. So he tried to play the banjo with “classical” instruments like violas and cellos, but it never worked out ...
Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk music heritage, ...