Legendary musician Bob Dylan wasn’t selling communism, Pete Seeger was. None of this is evident in "A Complete Unknown." ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Newport, Seeger, Dylan and the Night That Split the Sixties, which focuses on the 35-minute concert. Others have ... get results in popular music—and Pete Seeger was the catalyst.” ...
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.