After the events of A Complete Unknown, Pete Seeger went on to a long and successful career in both music and activism.
It was groundbreaking, but the crowd of 17,000 ... Popular Front’s strategy to get results in popular music—and Pete Seeger was the catalyst.” Seeger joined the Communist Party in 1942 ...
TheWrap magazine: Director James Mangold said, “Go out and mine Pete Seeger and bring me back a bunch of gold,” says the actor ...
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 ...
Wilkes-Barre-based folk musician and songwriter Don Shappelle can recall an early, formative moment in his musical journey.
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 ...
The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music described the politics of Pete Seeger, the folk-singer, songwriter, and antiwar activist who died last week at the age of 94, as “naïve but honest.” ...
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 ...
While that never happened, Seeger did help launch Dylan by giving him many opportunities to perform. According to Wald, the first time Dylan is on stage in front of a really big crowd is at a Pete ...