Pete Seeger News

Who killed Victor Jara? The notorious murder of the popular folk singer - who became a symbol of resistance after he was tortured and shot to death in the chaotic first days of Chile's 1973 coup - has never been solved.

Caption: Bob Dylan performing live at Optimus Alive 2008 in Passeio Maritimo de Alges Lisbon, Portugal .... The March on Washington event in 1963, featuring BOB DYLAN, JOAN BAEZ and folk icon PETE SEEGER, has beaten THE BEATLES' ED SULLIVAN shows and Dylan's controversial Newport Folk Festival gig to top a list of America's greatest concerts in the ...

In the tradition of Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton and the giants of the folk revival, the Folk Project will present Chorus Song Night at The Minstrel on Friday, December 4 at 8:00 pm at the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown.

A funny thing happened to storyteller Judy Kane last week as she was rehearsing a Pete Seeger tale for Saturday's storytelling festival in Murrysville.

Local ballad singer Jane Birdsong will take the stage at the Randolph County Community Arts Center's Brown Bag Lunch Concert at noon Wednesday.

It's been a busy year for award-winning singer/songwriter/activist Emmylou Harris.

Scott Gibson grew up singing folk songs such as Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" in grammar school but later gravitated to Top 40 and dance music as a teenager and young adult when he played professionally in bands.

The Readington Community Theatre will present its first Coffee House music event on Saturday, Nov.

Mary Travers of the 1960s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary , who died on Sept. 16 at 72, was remembered on Monday night for both her music and her part in awakening the political consciousness of the baby-boomer generation.

Years ago Pete Seeger penned this song, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone." This tune came to mind when I started thinking about "Where Have All the Manners Gone?" Boorish and rude behaviors appear to have overgrown the flowerbeds of civility by strangling respectful and polite behaviors.

PEGGY Seeger ranks as one of the most important people to grace and shape the folk scene, and her brother Pete Seeger, who has just celebrated his 90th birthday, is seen as the father of the American folk revival.

Well, sure. How else to describe one of his encores at Benaroya Hall Tuesday night: a bluegrass version of his 1978 novelty hit, "King Tut?" Or Martin's original protest song, embracing the great tradition of Pete Seeger and Joan Baez: "Let's Keep the Minimum Wage Right Where It Is." Or his attempt at a little folk outreach with the capacity ...

Max Kutner, a 2007 graduate of South Side High School who is a junior at Vassar College, was chosen to open for legendary folk singer Pete Seeger atA an Oct.

Novelist and political activist Howard Fast, an avowed Communist who writes regularly for the pro-Stalinist Daily Worker, agrees to speak at a concert featuring baritone Paul Robeson and folk singer Pete Seeger.

Pete Seeger leads the audience in "Amazing Grace" during the 32nd annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival last January.

Louis Armstrong is credited with saying: 'All music is folk music; I ain't never heard no horse sing a song." Another variation on the quote is 'All music is folk music, because we're all just folk."Quotations aside, there are some interesting jazz-folk synergies at work this autumn.

At 4:30 a.m. I was up and on my way to the Cincinnati airport. By 9 a.m. I was in a pearl white stretch Chrysler 300 limo navigating the streets of New York City.

HUDSON RIVER JOURNEYS is an exploration of "America's first river," through the eyes of artist Len Tantillo and folk singer Pete Seeger.

On the anniversary of Peekskill Concert: Remembering Paul Robeson By Brenda Sandburg Published Oct 8, 2009 10:27 PM Sixty years ago Paul Robeson - fearless civil rights advocate, renowned actor and magnificent singer - came to Peekskill, N.Y., to give a concert.

It's not your father's folk festival -- or your grandfather's. It's not all Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan and those other '60s folkies -- though that musical movement would certain be represented .