Anyone aiming to understand folk musician Pete Seeger and his undying belief that music can make the world a better place should read this Inquirer essay from 1998.

In 1994, he received a National Medal of Arts and a full-throated concert tribute as a Kennedy Center Honoree. “Some artists make musical history,” said President Bill Clinton. “Pete Seeger ...

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 "A Complete Unknown," Norton is folk music legend Pete Seeger, playing opposite Timothée Chalamet as the young Bob Dylan. Norton says playing a music legend like Seeger was both sublime ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...