Hudson Mohawk IMC: Pete Seeger - We Shall Overcome (mention's Seton's influence)

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Bruce Springsteen has just released a new album featuring songs popularized by Pete Seeger. Pete, from Beacon NY, is an activist as well as a musician, helping to start the environmental group Clearwater. Before the Byrds or Joan Baez or Peter, Paul and Mary, there was Pete Seeger. With his five-string banjo in hand, Seeger helped to lay the foundation for American protest music, singing out about the plight of everyday working folks and urging listeners to political and social activism.
When Will They Ever Learn?()
An Interview with Pete Seeger
By John W. Whitehead
01/04/06

“Any darn fool can make something complex;
it takes a genius to make something simple.”—Pete Seeger

Before the Byrds or Joan Baez or Peter, Paul and Mary, there was Pete Seeger. With his five-string banjo in hand, Seeger helped to lay the foundation for American protest music, singing out about the plight of everyday working folks and urging listeners to political and social activism.

Born in New York City on May 3, 1919, Seeger, whose father was a pacifist musicologist, was plunged into the world of music and politics from an early age. He studied sociology at Harvard University until 1938, when he dropped out and spent the summer bicycling through New England and New York, painting watercolors of farmers’ houses in return for food. Looking for but failing to get a jo"