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      Memorial Concert For Pete And Toshi Seeger

      So Long, Pete & Toshi Seeger, It's Been Amazingly Great to Know You...

      Harvey Wasserman
      Jan 28, 2014

      Toshi and Pete Seeger defy description except through the sheer joy and honor it was to know them, however briefly.

      Their list of accomplishments will fill many printed pages, which all pale next to the simple core beauty of the lives they led.

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      Musician Pete Seeger (1919-2014)

      Pete Seeger: The Man Who Brought Politics to Music

      One of Pete Seeger's greatest achievements was incorporating political activism into music, and realizing that liberation struggles need a soundtrack

      Dorian Lynskey
      Jan 28, 2014

      Pete Seeger was a good man. There aren't many musicians you can say that about without seeming simplistic. Music is often progressed by flawed, volatile, glamorous egotists, and thank God for them. But Seeger carved out his place in history with a quieter, rarer set of qualities: nobility, generosity, humility and, when things got rough, breathtaking courage. Perhaps uniquely, he became one of the most important singers in America without ever being a star, because he believed in the song rather than the singer.

      Seeger was born into privilege but not convention. His father Charles, an Ivy League professor and composer, was a pacifist and founding member of the leftwing Composers' Collective, and he came to embrace the radical potential of folk music. Pete was an intense, idealistic Harvard dropout when, in 1940, the folklorist Alan Lomax introduced him to Woody Guthrie. Said Lomax: "You can date the renaissance of American folk song from that night."

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