Several years after the demise of the long popular Clearwater Festival, organizers hope to present a new music and environmental festival next year if they can raise enough money. The proposed ...
The hope is to bring back the same ideals and sentiments of the Clearwater Festival founded by Pete and Toshi Seeger, who raised awareness about the pollution in the Hudson River and inspired ...
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 ...
Pete and Toshi Seeger, their son Daniel, and folklorist Bruce Jackson visited a Texas prison in Huntsville in March of 1966 and produced this rare document of of work songs by inmates of the Ellis ...
Pete Seeger, a man for whom the modifier “legendary” seems hopelessly inadequate, had many Jewish associations in a career that spanned seven decades. Today began on a sad note with news that ...
“If there’s hope for the human race, there’s hope for the Hudson.” —Pete Seeger In the summer of 1969, legendary folk singer Pete Seeger launched the Clearwater, a 19th-century-style ...