Today would have been Pete Seeger's birthday. We remember his contributions to song and socialism. Pete Seeger, one of 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

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