Seeger joined the Communist Party in 1942 and, in time, learned to make his appeals to communism with subtlety. After the U.S ...

Every Seeger concert involved a lot of group singing, including multipart harmonising of South African chants, gospel hymns, rounds, and anthems — which Pete would elicit with patient insistence.

In 1940, Pete Seeger hit the road with Woody Guthrie on a tour of the United States. They played benefit concerts for migrant Californian workers and like Guthrie, Seeger spent time riding freight ...

Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself ... passed down through oral tradition. It's from a concert in Nashville in 1970, broadcast on ABC, just a few years after the TV networks lifted ...

If music helps make us who we are, it’s fitting that Mark Hellman is finally about to become Pete Seeger ... the business tend to turn into tribute concerts, but they don’t necessarily ...

The folk singer, who died in 2014, was famous for his songs about working people, unions and social justice. In this 1984 interview, Seeger cited Woody Guthrie as one his most important influences.

10 Years Ago: Bruce Springsteen Pays Tribute to a Folk Music Hero on 'We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions' Even at a time when artists were pretty much required to turn out a new album every ...

GROSS: Pete Seeger was convicted for contempt of Congress, but that was eventually overturned on appeal. He later performed at President Obama's inaugural concert. As a young man, Seeger believed ...

This week, Pete Seeger was being mourned in Israel ... N.J., did an impromptu midnight concert at her army base in the Negev. During Seeger’s 1964 visit (he also came in 1967, just weeks ...

Pete Seeger, a man for whom the modifier “legendary” seems hopelessly inadequate, had many Jewish associations in a career that spanned seven decades. Today began on a sad note with news that ...