Pete Seeger News

Peggy Seeger said it best with a new song that she had penned for her brother Pete's 94th birthday.

The Museum of the City of New York today announced a star-studded line-up of musicians and writers for a special concert to benefit the upcoming exhibition Folk City.

The "Listen Again" series was popular enough that your favorite record reviewer has decided to follow the lead of some TV execs and do a spin-off. In this series we once more examine previously-released albums BUT the platters we'll peruse in this particular series will be But first, for those not up on their music history, Kottke is an acoustic ... (more)

Manufacturing and shipping. Brickworkers and railworkers. When incorporated as a city in 1913, Beacon was known for hatmaking.

The new, 12,000-square-foot Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa features exhibits on Guthrie's life and includes Oklahoma's only permanent exhibit on the Dust Bowl.

By GREG HAYMES SCHENECTADY - He sang out danger. He sang out a warning. He sang out love between his brothers and his sisters, all over this land Pete Seeger will be the first to tell you that he's not a singer.

MUSIC/FUNDRAISER : Pete and Peggy Seeger @ the Eighth Step at Proctors , Schenectady.

Times Union Staff photograph by Philip Kamrass -- Legendary folksinger Pete Seeger stands on a dock near old pilings for the former Newburgh Beacon ferry, with the Newburgh-Beacon bridge visible in the distance, on the Hudson River, during the Beacon Sloop Club Corn Festival in Beacon, NY Sunday August 11, 2002.

Before the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, Jim Hendrix, Bob Dylan and others, there was Pete Seeger.

JUDY COLLINS Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, Discovery Theatre 5/8-5/8/2013 Judy Collins has thrilled audiences worldwide with her unique blend of interpretative folksongs and contemporary themes.

"With a move to Miami Theater Center as our core venue, we look to return to our roots and expand our mission," founder and artistic director , will be honored on May 15 with the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Award for Distinguished Service in the Arts, joining a list of past recipients that includes Villella's mentor George Balanchine, ... (more)

Fans including the Library of Congress cheered and honored U.S. folk singer Pete Seeger, who turned 94 Friday.

Pete Seeger at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Jan.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include Italian political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli in 1469; British explorer John Speke , who discovered the source of the Nile, in 1827; journalist Jacob August Riis in 1849; French perfume maker Francois Coty in 1874; Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in 1898; singer/actor Bing ... (more)

On this day in 1936, Joe DiMaggio made his MLB debut with the Yankees. Washington, DC was incorporated in 1802.

Since emerging onto the American music scene in 1991 with a Boston Acoustic Underground Award, Ellis Paul has garnered national attention as a talented songwriter.

About 94 years ago a baby boy was born in Patterson, NY. This baby boy would go on to become the folk legend Pete Seeger.

FOLK singer Peggy Seeger told Oxford City Council she had quit the Labour Party over its controversial plan to shut Temple Cowley Pools .

In 1950, The Weavers released "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena," the first and only Hebrew-language song to top the charts in America.

Dozens of the music legend's fans turned out to the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa on Saturday to celebrate the Red River Valley hitmaker's life and work, 46 years after his death.