Pete Seeger, one of the most influential artists ... They never had another hit record. Seeger left the Weavers to pursue a solo career, but he was blacklisted from the early 1950s through the ...

The song sung by Guthrie is a heart-breaking lament for innocent people who died so horribly. Seeger made the song popular and many other greats sang that song in the following decades, including Bob ...

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 ...

The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music described the politics of Pete Seeger, the folk-singer, songwriter, and antiwar activist who died last week at the age of 94, as “naïve but honest.” ...

NEW YORK CITY, March 27--Balladeer Pete Seeger's long-delayed trial for contempt of Congress finally got under way today before Judge Murphy in a U.S. District Court here. The ten-count indictment ...

Pete Seeger was a major figure in America’s folk revival and influenced generations of musicians—including Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Billy Bragg. Before dedicating his life to music ...

NEW YORK CITY, March 29--Pete Seeger '40 was found guilty this after-noon on ten counts for contempt of Congress. He faces the possibility of up to a $100 fine and a year in jail on each count.

In just four years, so much had changed. Attendance was down for the last night of the 1969 Newport Folk Festival for two ...