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CD Review: Pete Seeger, “Live in ‘65″

Oct 19, 2009 12:30 PM

Excerpt ...Seeger’s unlikely late-career resurgence continues with Live in ‘65, Appleseed Recordings’ latest contribution to the folk icon’s vast catalog. Culled from a performance at Pittsburg...

Pete Seeger Concert Review: An Icon On Stage

Oct 7, 2009 9:02 AM

Excerpt ...a few times every concert season when a fan is provided an opportunity to see an icon on stage. This was the case during Pete Seeger's set at The Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium in San F...

The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger by Alec Wilkinson (Review)

Sep 22, 2009 10:59 PM

Excerpt Folk revivalist Pete Seeger’s abundant life makes good literary fodder. David Dunaway wrote an exhaustive biography of the banjo picker, How Can I Keep From Singing, in 1981. Seeger him...

Pete Seeger's scratchy voice elicits joyful noise at Monterey Jazz Festival

Sep 19, 2009 10:40 PM

Excerpt turn, turn), There is a season (turn, turn, turn), and a time for every purpose, under heaven." Then he tried out some jazz, Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies," before bringing the crowd to i...

For Pete Seeger, the only downside of turning 90 is fame

Sep 11, 2009 2:52 AM

Excerpt loquacious: Singing — that's what he does. He sings for people, and people inevitably sing along with him. And in this year of firsts, singing at one of the world's great jazz festivals...

Pete Seeger marks 90th year on a concert bash

Sep 11, 2009 1:14 AM

Excerpt Joining Seeger are more than 40 artists including Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Kris Kristofferson, Richie Havens, Roger McGuinn, Ani DiFranco, Taj Mahal,...

For Pete Seeger, the only downside of turning 90 is fame

Sep 10, 2009 2:47 PM

Excerpt loquacious: Singing — that's what he does. He sings for people, and people inevitably sing along with him. And in this year of firsts, singing at one of the world's great jazz festivals...

Pete Seeger On ILWU President Harry Bridges & The SF General Strike

Sep 6, 2009 2:02 PM

Pete Seeger speaks about the 1934 San Francisco General Strike and Harry Bridges. He and Woody Guthrie went to the bay area in 1941 and composed the "Ballad For Harry Bridges" to support the fight ...

RetroBites: Pete Seeger (1963)

Aug 12, 2009 11:16 AM

Legendary folk singer Pete Seeger explains how he wrote his most famous song. (1963)

Richard Flacks on Pete Seeger

Aug 7, 2009 12:18 AM

Excerpt Pete Seeger turned 90 on May 3, providing the occasion for a huge Madison Square Garden celebratory concert, featuring a wide array of popular musicians singing his songs and honoring h...

Newport Folk Fest 50 - Day 1 pics, video, audio (Pete Seeger, Decemberists, Fleet Foxes, Shara Worden as Dylan & more)

Aug 6, 2009 10:25 PM

Excerpt In addition to appearing and performing for the umpteenth time, Seeger was honored with an all out stage show courtesy of indie rockers the Decemberists. With frontman Colin Meloy narra...

Seeger Still Strumming After Hard Knocks

Aug 2, 2009 6:53 AM

Excerpt (CBS) On a May night, backstage at Madison Square Garden, more than 50 musicians warmed up for a birthday party. Folk hero Pete Seeger was turning 90, and the occasion brought out, in ...

Pete Seeger sails on

Aug 2, 2009 1:48 AM

Excerpt ...Seeger has never paid attention to demographics or audience segments. His message has always been about inconclusiveness as a performer. And he's a performer in many senses of the wo...

Newport folk festival marks 50th annniversary

Jul 30, 2009 9:05 AM

Excerpt PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island - Joan Baez was just 18 when she performed at the first Newport Folk Festival, a self-described neurotic and high maintenance teenager who remembers trembling i...

Newport Folk Festival celebrates 50th anniversary

Jul 29, 2009 10:21 PM

Excerpt The Decemberists will take the stage Saturday at Fort Adams State Park. TICKETS: $69 in advance, $75 on festival weekend, $15 children 3-15, under 3 free; visit www.folkfestival50.com o...