Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself ... became a popular protest song against the Vietnam War. 7. "Turn! Turn! Turn!" Another Seeger song, "Turn! Turn! Turn!," also became part of the ...
Pete Seeger, one of the most influential artists in American history, ... “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” “If I Had a Hammer” and “Turn, Turn, Turn,” and those he has popularized, ...
New Delhi: The audience at Delhi’s India International Centre erupted as Anthony ‘Tony’ Seeger picked up his banjo and launched into ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone?’ He urged everyone to sing along, ...
Wilkes-Barre-based folk musician and songwriter Don Shappelle can recall an early, formative moment in his musical journey.
At a music-filled evening in Delhi, Tony Seeger, nephew of legendary American folk singer Pete Seeger, traced how archives, cowboy songs, and a banjo revived a fading musical tradition.
A Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee known as a pioneer of the ‘60s folk-rock movement is coming to an intimate Alabama venue in February.
There’s a priceless moment early in “A Complete Unknown” when folk icon Pete Seeger returns to the cabin where he lives with his family after offering a young singer named Bob Dylan a place ...
It took a while for the Popular Front’s strategy to get results in popular music—and Pete Seeger was the catalyst.” Seeger joined the Communist Party in 1942 and, in time, learned to make ...
Like Pete Seeger’s folk-music purity test, the intentions are genuine and not without merit. But when an orthodoxy is unquestioningly supported for its own sake, creativity always loses. And without ...
The makers of A Complete Unknown gave up trying to make the singer-songwriter sympathetic, and let his music – and a bravura ...
These folk rock anthems of the 1960s are just a few memorable, historically relevant works to come out of one of the best musical decades.