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 ...
Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself ... passed down through oral tradition. It's from a concert in Nashville in 1970, broadcast on ABC, just a few years after the TV networks lifted ...
Every Seeger concert involved a lot of group singing, including multipart harmonising of South African chants, gospel hymns, rounds, and anthems — which Pete would elicit with patient insistence.
In the film, Pete Seeger — played by Edward Norton ... from town to town — port towns on the Hudson — give little concerts on a waterfront wharf, and go to the next town,” Shappelle ...
GROSS: Pete Seeger was convicted for contempt of Congress, but that was eventually overturned on appeal. He later performed at President Obama's inaugural concert. As a young man, Seeger believed ...
This week, Pete Seeger was being mourned in Israel ... N.J., did an impromptu midnight concert at her army base in the Negev. During Seeger’s 1964 visit (he also came in 1967, just weeks ...
Pete Seeger, a man for whom the modifier “legendary” seems hopelessly inadequate, had many Jewish associations in a career that spanned seven decades. Today began on a sad note with news that ...
I should mention one little, very typical incident. At supper, before his big concert, Pete found a finely folded napkin on his plate, decorating a little note, which I translated: "Dear Mr. Seeger, I ...