PETE SEEGER & FRIENDS AT FDU
It was a wonderful night for music at FDU. As previously mentioned on these pages, WFDU sponsored an awareness concert for the School of the America’s Watch (www.soaw.org ) that featured Pete Seeger and Friends. The friends included Kim & Reggie Harris, Bethany & Rufus, Martin Dull, John Dull and Ted Clancy.
Pete started the evening a
nd performed for about 45 minutes. The 88 year old folk music icon was in good form and shared a number of songs including “Turn, Turn, Turn”, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, “Old Dan Tucker” and a number of other songs – some familiar and some rarely performed.The
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ear-sellout crowd thoroughly enjoyed the performance, as well as the sets from the other performers on the bill. Bethany & Rufus showed the audience that folk music is a living tradition and their take on classic folk songs opened new doors for theses songs. 
Bethany Yarrow, daughter of Peter Yarrow, brought her daughter Valentina, who was nine months old today.
Kim and Reggie Harris closed the show w
ith a set that included “Eyes on the Prize” and two Phil Och’s songs including “Changes”, and they led the entire cast (minuse Pete who had to return home) in a rousing version of “Study War No More”.I will have more photos from the event next week, but I wanted to share these early notes and photos.
I’m heading back to the North East Regional Folk Alliance for the remainder of the weekend and I will have a full recap on thoses events next week!