Pete Seeger, Folk Music Icon And Activist, Dies At 94 : The Two-Way Seeger had been a mentor and an influence on younger musicians for decades. He will be remembered for his music and his social ...

Tom Chapin, on Banjo, playing Pete Seeger tunes By Dan Murphy Back in the 1970s, my parents took me to several concerts at ...

Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection is a six-CD collection of Seeger's previously unreleased music, accompanied by a 200-page book. Diana Davies/Courtesy of the artist hide caption ...

As news of Pete Seeger‘s death spread on Tuesday, some on the right offered eulogies in the form of a cliche: “I may not have cared for Pete Seeger’s politics, but I sure loved his music.” ...

A central figure of American music, Pete Seeger touched the lives of generations with his long list of folk and protest songs that became cultural landmarks of various social movements. Jeffrey ...

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 ...

Pete Seeger, a seminal figure in American music who kept folk music alive and influenced generations of musicians from Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen, died Monday of natural causes in New York ...

His music catalog and social activism spanned six decades, but now a major folk voice has been silenced. Beacon resident Pete Seeger died Monday night in New York City after being hospitalized for ...

Looking through a book of Dylan Thomas’ essays, Seeger found a poem by former Welsh miner Idris Davies. It was an ode to the Welsh miners and named various Welsh towns. Seeger put the poem to music.

Folk singer Pete Seeger, who established the music as an expression of community, conscience and social justice during a career that spanned eight decades, has died. He was 94. Perhaps more than ...

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 ...

And so it is, 87 years young on May 3, speaking on the phone from the Hudson River town of Beacon, N.Y., which Seeger and Toshi, his wife of almost 63 years, have called home since 1949. The voice ...