After the events of A Complete Unknown, Pete Seeger went on to a long and successful career in both music and activism.
Bob Dylan has always had a fraught relationship with the world of progressive social change. He wrote some of the most ...
It took a while for the Popular Front’s strategy to get results in popular music—and Pete Seeger was the catalyst.” Seeger ...
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 ...
Over the course of nearly 75 years, the singer, songwriter and activist Pete Seeger used his pen and his voice to champion many causes: civil rights, farmworker and labor rights, and the environment.
Though A Complete Unknown is about Bob Dylan, the film also dives deep into the life of Pete Seeger. The folk singer was instrumental in discovering and mentoring Dylan, and the film follows how ...
Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself. It wasn't just that he contributed his tenor (and banjo picking) to two seminal folk groups — the Almanac Singers (with Woody Guthrie) and The Weavers ...
NEW YORK CITY, March 27--Balladeer Pete Seeger's long-delayed trial for contempt of Congress finally got under way today before Judge Murphy in a U.S. District Court here. The ten-count indictment ...
One of Bob Dylan's first New York connections, "America's tuning fork" Pete Seeger, is depicted in the new Dylan biopic A ...
Toward the end of A Complete Unknown, a good biopic about Bob Dylan that opened on Christmas, there is a key scene in which Dylan manager Albert Grossman barks at folk music legend Pete Seeger ...