PETE SEEGER The Complete Bowdoin College Concert Smithsonian/Folkways 40184 Smithsonian/Folkways Website www.peteseeger.net If it was a difficult year for Sing Out! magazine co-founder and longtime columnist Pete Seeger, you’d never know it from the buoyancy … Continue reading →
James Chaney’s mother, Fannie Lee Chaney, and his brother, Ben Now, having moved through a discussion of a number of musical responses to the Freedom Summer murders, I’d like to go back to “ThoseThree Are On My Mind,” and think … Continue reading →
“Those Three Are On My Mind” was one of several songs born out of the tragic killings in Neshoba County, Mississippi in the summer of 1964. It’s hard for me to say whether it’s the best known, but was the … Continue reading →
Pete’s Seeger’s musical memoir, The Incompleat Folk Singer, includes the following entry for August 5, 1964. I hope he’ll pardon me for quoting it in its entirety, but I think it informs our conversation here about music, tragedy, and political … Continue reading →
“Southern Justice (Murder in Mississippi)” by Norman Rockwell Freedom Summer Next week, June 21st to be exact, will mark the 48th anniversary of the day that civil rights activists Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman were murdered in Mississippi, … Continue reading →
Woody Guthrie Working Class Hero Less graphically than “On a Hill Lone and Gray,” Woody Guthrie provides his own rendering of the Jesus story. In this one, the multitude is still implicated, but in a slightly different way; and, the … Continue reading →
Here is a unique opportunity to own a piece of history – and most important – to do some real good in this world, at a time when it really needs some help. Pete Seeger is auctioning his famous banjo … Continue reading →
BURL IVES 1909 – 1995 Burl Ives was born on this date in 1909 in Hunt City, Illinois. A noted actor, writer and as many readers of this website are probably aware, Ives was a noted singer of folk songs. … Continue reading →
I’d like to share a few thoughts about the Pete Seeger 90th Birthday Celebration at Madison Square Garden. If you were there, or even if you couldn’t make it, I would love to hear your thoughts as well. Please feel … Continue reading →
As the big day draws near, there are numerous plans around the globe to celebrate Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday this coming Sunday May 3. Madison Square Garden will be the site for the BIG event. The concert, which will benefit … Continue reading →
