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‘Hum Honge Kamyab’ to cowboy songs—how Pete Seeger took American folk music across borders
At a music-filled evening in Delhi, Tony Seeger, nephew of legendary American folk singer Pete Seeger, traced how archives, ...
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Edward Norton on digging into the activism of Pete Seeger for ‘A Complete Unknown’ and annoying his kids with banjo-playing
Though A Complete Unknown is about Bob Dylan, the film also dives deep into the life of Pete Seeger. The folk singer ... He also learned how to play the banjo. “I focused very hard on a limited ...
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8 songs to remember Pete Seeger by
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 ...
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Pete Seeger
Cunningly disguised in a yellow tie and three steel finger-picks, Pete Seeger '40 wowed 'em last night at M.I.T. Mr. Seeger sang and played various primitive instruments (including the banjo ...
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Folk music legend got short shrift in ‘A Complete Unknown,’ but his songs will live on | Column
I was a child of the Pete Seeger generation ... a Mr. Rogers with a banjo, clinging to the past. Dylan meets Seeger at the hospital bedside his hero Woody Guthrie, one of America’s most ...
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Pete Seeger's 'Fresh Air' interview
Pete Seeger was famous for his songs about working ... and I fell down and skinned my knees and elbow and broke my banjo. Fortunately, I had a camera with me and I hocked it in a local pawn ...
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At a music-filled evening in Delhi, Tony Seeger, nephew of legendary American folk singer Pete Seeger, traced how archives, cowboy songs, and a banjo revived a fading musical tradition.