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Pete Seeger wrote songs that became the heart and soul of the Civil Rights Movement- Where Have All The Flowers Gone, If I Had A Hammer, Turn Turn Turn, Waist Depp In The Big Muddy, We Shall Overcome...
We traveled to the Newport Folk Festival, which Pete helped establish, and got to sing with the great man himself.
I heard this on the news this morning, he led a full and inspiring life.
Designs, Newport Folk Festival was on my yearly pilgrimage list. To this day I get funny looks out of my hard rock contemporaries when I lapse into singing some good old folk song.
RIP, Pete. You made a difference
Pete Seeger was a staple of my youth. I saw him at Hunter College in concert. He seemed to perform at every antiwar demo in NYC and DC. I had not heard of him in a long time and assumed that he died. PBS ran a documentary. He was performing and doing Hudson River projects well into his 90s. I wanted to see him again. I loved "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" and "If I Had a Hammer."
I recall his appearance on the Smothers Brothers.The network never received so many complaints. He was obviously deeply committed to leftist politics but he never preached. His concerts were sing a longs more than performances. All these leftist groups were arguing with each other and not getting much done in their disputes over purity. Peter, Paul, and Mary and Pete Seeger were such a relief.
I purchased some Pete Seeger classics from iTunes this year. If there is a public memorial, I want to attend.
Amen Band.
Pete Seeger was a great talent and a committed man to the best causes. He suffered for his activism but kept on anyway. A great man who deserves our respect. The music industry does not produce men like him these days - sadly. He led a full life and tweaked the establishment - power to him
The nearest I got to him was seeing his sister Peggy Seeger performing a folk gig with her then husband Ewan Mcoll
Blues- In listening to the Grammys Sunday night I wondered how many if any of those songs would be remembered in 50 years. My grandchildren will still be singing If I Had A Hammer.
Hubby's Witness programming kicks in whenever he hears of a death. He also is a big sixties music fan. I looked up Seeger's life on Wikipedia this morning and we had a long talk about his life. By Witness standards, he had a near-perfect life, a long life. He lived according to his principles, married young and stayed married, and worked doing what he loved - singing - until his death. He had a small property with a cabin on it in New York, and his children all went on to creative endeavors from pottery to music.
I said, "At least to this world's standards he had a long and good life."
But, oh yeah, he didn't impose his beliefs on anyone, and he sported a beard.
More food for thought for my man.
Hell, yes, designs.^^^^^^
Those songs pulled at my heart as a 12 year old in a conservative world. They reached my heart planting their simple poetry and love of LIFE in me.
Oh, yeah, he attended the Unitarian Universalist church. Hubby pipes up, "Isn't that what your girlfriend goes to?" Yup.
