Life Is Just So Unfair.... First My Favorite Musician And Greenwich Connecticuts Best Kept Musical Secret Jason Josob Moves To London And Now Folk Singer and Activist Pete Seeger Dies Pete Seeger, the singer, folk-song collector and songwriter who spearheaded an American folk revival and spent a long career championing folk music as both a vital heritage and a catalyst for social change, died Monday. He was 94 and lived in Beacon, N.Y Seegers career carried him from singing at labor rallies to the Top 10 to college auditoriums to folk festivals, and from a conviction for contempt of Congress (after defying the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s) to performing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at an inaugural concert for Barack Obama. For Seeger, folk music and a sense of community were inseparable, and where he saw a community, he saw the possibility of political action. Now thats a life Thanks for the music - more, thanks for the messages. RIP, Pete, RIP. youtube/watch?v=7pZa3KtkVpQ
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 13:20:31 +0000
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