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Stephen Chapman (Jan. 1 column) says of Pete Seeger: “He is not one of those artists whose art can be considered separately from his politics-like, say Wagner or Picasso. It would be like ...
Americans have a great capacity to forgive and a small capacity to remember, which has been a great asset to the career of folk singer and national monument Pete Seeger. He was recently given two o… ...
Folk singer extraordinaire Pete Seeger turned 90 this week. As one who has always appreciated the art of communication and persuasion, I’ve been a fan of Seeger — when I agreed with his ...
No other singer could connect with an audience of different ages quite like Pete Seeger, who passed away in New York this week at age 94. The night before he died, my mother, my daughter and I all … ...
Tom Chapin, on Banjo, playing Pete Seeger tunes By Dan Murphy Back in the 1970s, my parents took me to several concerts at ...
The story of Pete Seeger’s trial starts long before the sentencing that’s shown in A Complete Unknown.According to documents retrieved by Mother Jones’ Freedom of Information Act request ...
WARNING: SPOILERS ahead for A Complete Unknown. One of Bob Dylan's first New York connections, Pete Seeger, is featured in the new Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. Starring Timothée Chalamet as ...
Edward Norton on digging into the activism of Pete Seeger for ‘A Complete Unknown’ and annoying his kids with banjo-playing "I think if I play ‘This Land Is Your Land’ one more time in my ...
92-year-old Pete Seeger waves farewell to the audience at conclusion of the 2011 Newport Folk Festival on July 31, 2011. (Photo by Arthur Pollock / MediaNews Group / Boston Herald via Getty Images ...