Edward Norton on digging into the activism of Pete Seeger for ‘A Complete Unknown’ and annoying his kids with banjo-playing
Though A Complete Unknown is about Bob Dylan, the film also dives deep into the life of Pete Seeger. The folk singer was ...
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Another complete unknown is Pete Seeger’s communism
Peter Stone writes that Wald himself “details how what was eventually called ‘the folk movement’ was pretty much [Seeger’s] ...
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Folk music legend got short shrift in ‘A Complete Unknown,’ but his songs will live on | Column
Over the course of nearly 75 years, the singer, songwriter and activist Pete ... me. Seeger performed at Oberlin College in 1983 when I was a student there. He played his long-neck banjo famously ...
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8 songs to remember Pete Seeger by
Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself. It wasn't just that he contributed his tenor (and banjo picking) to two seminal folk groups — the Almanac Singers (with Woody Guthrie) and The Weavers ...
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Pete Seeger
Cunningly disguised in a yellow tie and three steel finger-picks, Pete Seeger '40 wowed 'em last night at M.I.T. Mr. Seeger sang and played various primitive instruments (including the banjo ...