Seeger campaigned for civil rights, but he rejected culture wars and ... revolution and sought to destroy everything from the past, Pete wanted us to rediscover and reconnect with the simpler ...
Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself ... "We Will Overcome" Seeger didn't write the 1960s Civil Rights Movement anthem "We Shall Overcome," but he played an instrumental part in adapting ...
Pete Seeger, a man for whom the modifier “legendary ... He supported the labor and civil rights movements, was an unabashed communist (with a small “c”) and opposed America’s wars.
Blacklisted during the McCarthy era, a committed advocate for civil rights, environmental causes, social justice, and peace, Seeger remained a socialist till the end. Pete Seeger’s legacy ...
Bob Dylan has always had a fraught relationship with the world of progressive social change. He wrote some of the most ...
Wilkes-Barre-based folk musician and songwriter Don Shappelle can recall an early, formative moment in his musical journey.
Pete Seeger, one of the most influential artists ... He recorded over eighty albums — of children’s songs, labour, civil rights, and antiwar songs, traditional American folk songs ...
(AP Photo/George Brich, File) Singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow, of the 1960’s era musical trio “Peter Paul and Mary,” performs during a memorial tribute concert for folk icon and civil rights activist ...