Pete Seeger News

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 .

Season 31, Episode 10 of 16 : A concert presentation from "The Boss's" current tour.

Folk singer Mark Dvorak, who follows in the footsteps of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, will perform at Loutit District Library, 407 Columbus Ave., at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct.

Lyrics that stick! Today, episode four of the series The People's Music looks at the lyrics, and the new melodies of 1960s folk.

We are the folk song army, Every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice, Unlike the rest of you squares.

Legendary saxophonist Sonny Rollins and his band will play a benefit concert for the Clearwater organization Dec.

Laura Marling joined Mumford and Sons onstage for a cover of Dolly Parton 's 'Jolene' as the band launched their new album with a show in a barn at Lordship Farm in Standon , Hertfordshire , last night .

40,000 Fans Celebrate The Joy Of Jazz, September 18 - 20, 2009. Once again, the festival organizers have brought together fantastic music and a warm community atmosphere for an experience that will be remembered for years to come...there's no place like Monterey.

Eel petting, a sturgeon carcass and free public sails were a few ways the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater helped celebrate the grand opening of the Walkway Over the Hudson.

Arlo Guthrie , story teller. Proof, Alice's Restaurant ! Of course he wrote that a long time ago, and while it may remain his best known song he has other stories to tell, as you can hear tonight with a concert from the Vancouver Island MusicFest.