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 ...

To honour the hundredth anniversary of his birth, his fans will be sponsoring many concerts, tributes, publications, and, in May, a comprehensive six-CD set, Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways ...

While key figures associated with the American folksong revival, such as Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Alan Lomax, and Moses Asch, were white, the music traditions on which they drew were frequently African ...

Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself. It wasn't just that he contributed his tenor (and banjo picking) to two seminal folk groups — the Almanac Singers (with Woody Guthrie) and The Weavers ...

An interview with Curator and Producer Jeff Place about Pete Seeger, the celebrations for Seeger's 100th birthday, and the retrospective album recently released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

Cunningly disguised in a yellow tie and three steel finger-picks, Pete Seeger '40 wowed 'em last night at M.I.T. Mr. Seeger sang and played various primitive instruments (including the banjo ...

In a handwritten copy of the lyrics – reportedly in Seeger’s own hand – the song, called "The Schooner Denis Sullivan," is credited to "Paul Kaplan, Sara Pirtle, Tom Baldino, Pete Seeger ...

The early scenes of the film set the stage. When Bob Dylan arrives in New York City in the early 1960s, Pete Seeger, the paterfamilias of folk music, takes the young musician under his wing, getting ...

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 ...