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When Bob Dylan turned his back on protest music and traditional folk, he burned a lot of bridges; his friendship with Pete Seeger was one of them.
Pete Seeger, the iconic banjo-strumming folk singer and activist who performed for migrant workers and presidents, died on Monday. He was 94.Seeger, whose songwriting credits included "If I Had a ...
Pete Seeger said he fell in love with folk music when he was 16, at a music festival in North Carolina in 1935. His half brother, Mike Seeger, and half sister, Peggy Seeger, also became noted ...
The moment is quintessential Pete Seeger, a man who wore the same gentle smile whether he was leading sing-alongs or facing adversity that included a lengthy period in the 1950s where he was ...
Pete Seeger, who died in 2014 at the age of 94, saw innumerable changes in American politics during his long career. Although he was blacklisted for his left-wing political beliefs during the ...
Pete Seeger and David Amram are seen at a music event on Aug. 3, 2013. Ever since he chose his path, Pete stayed on it and walked the walk he talked and inspired generations to raise their voices ...
Folk musician Pete Seeger died Monday at the age of 94. Seeger was celebrated not only for his music with the Weavers and as a solo artist, but also for his relentless social activism.
Pete Seeger, the banjo-playing folk singer whose music was indelibly intertwined with his social activism, was honored Thursday as the latest American musician to appear on a US postage stamp.
I met Pete Seeger more than 30 years after I first saw him play and having listened to his music over those years it was somewhat awe inspiring. We had lunch.
Pete Seeger was such a prodigious talent, so young, that the godlike was expected of him. Born in 1919, the son of the ethnomusicologist Charles Seeger, he grew up in a left-wing household.
Peter Seeger was born May 3, 1919, in New York City. His father, Charles Seeger, was a conscientious objector during World War I and an eminent music scholar, reportedly the first to teach a ...