In "A Complete Unknown," Norton is folk music legend Pete Seeger, playing opposite Timothée Chalamet as the young Bob Dylan. Norton says playing a music legend like Seeger was both sublime ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...