Pete Seeger Centennial Birthday Celebrations May 3

[DinahMoeHum]

Pete Seeger's birthday: May 3, 1919


Events:
https://www.riseupandsing.org/seeger/100th/events

Pacifica Radio's WBAI is hosting an all-day celebration of Pete Seeger from 9am - 12 midnight EDT:

https://www.wbai.org/upcomingprogram.php?upcomingid=5688

https://www.wbai.org/playernew.html

[Va Lefty]

1. Even more relevant today than when he recorded it. Happy Birthday Pete!

[Lindsay]

2. Happy Pete Seeger's Birthday

to us all.

What an extraordinary man he was.

[ornotna]

3. Happy Birthday Pete

Was lucky to see him twice in the early mid seventies when he was sailing the Hudson River in his boat Clearwater. They would come to high schools and give a free show and presentation on river cleanup.

Such a nice man. Still miss him.

[Bradshaw3]

4. He was a national treasure n/t

[Danascot]

5. Here's an interview with Pete from WAMC, Albany, NY NPR station

This is a must listen for all Pete Seeger fans. It's full of fascinating anecdotes about music, history and politics. Highly recommended. What a beautiful man he was!

https://www.wamc.org/post/wamcs-alan-chartock-conversation-folk-music-icon-pete-seeger

[BKDem]

6. Compare and Contrast with the 2017 inaugural

Here's Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen at Obama's inauguration in 2009, singing This Land is Your Land. Pete restored Woody Guthrie's lyrics that were dropped in the 1950s.

[Elwood P Dowd]

7. Pete Seeger and The Weavers

This album was my first exposure to his music back in the 1960s. Amazing music and sound quality with the remastered versions on both LP and CD.

[struggle4progress]

8. Bells of Rhymney

[struggle4progress]

9. If I had a hammer

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10. Turn! Turn! Turn!

[struggle4progress]

11. Waist deep in the Big Muddy

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12. All the flowers gone