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 ...

Over the course of nearly 75 years, the singer, songwriter and activist Pete Seeger used his pen and his voice to champion many causes: civil rights, farmworker and labor rights, and the environment.

Wilkes-Barre-based folk musician and songwriter Don Shappelle can recall an early, formative moment in his musical journey.

It took a while for the Popular Front’s strategy to get results in popular music—and Pete ... pushed Seeger toward a more refined style.” Seeger himself recalled that “as the labor ...

In 1949, Seeger, alongside Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman, and Ronnie Gilbert, founded The Weavers, blending traditional folk, labor songs, American ballads, and children’s songs.

The show will feature the songs of folk singers Lee Hays, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger and will be performed ... musical soundtrack for the American labor movement and the struggles for social ...

From Pete Seeger to Billie Holiday to Rage Against the Machine to Kendrick Lamar, musicians of all genres have spoken truth to power ...

TheWrap magazine: Director James Mangold said, “Go out and mine Pete Seeger and bring me back a bunch of gold,” says the actor ...

“You gotta get the music right,” he said. “That’s the gig. And Peter Yarrow said to me the thing about Pete Seeger is that he sang the song three times at the same time: He sang ...

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...

He urged everyone to sing along, just as his uncle, the legendary American folk singer Pete Seeger, often did. With his banjo, Tony Seeger is keeping both his uncle’s music and folk legacy alive. An ...