RIP: Pete Seeger

[semper]

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertai...er-no-computer-no-records-just-singing/61989/

 

[chip]

to diggerfoot: GREAT to know you were a 'Gaudie'. Are you still? If not come back! Our oldest daughter was an original chorister in CA with Paul. Our youngest is in CA now with Gabriel.

to Pete: Thank you for the example, inspiration and fun. Never forget when Arlo Guthrie came out on stage at the Kennedy Center to honor you, looked up at the box where you with sitting with the President and asked "what the hell are you doing up there?" So glad you are back with Toshi.

 

[Sonny44]

Few folks know that Pete was another Harvard drop out. It almost seems a better career path to drop out of Harvard than to finish. Right, Mr. Gates.

http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2014/01/peter-seeger-the-communist-consumers-love

 

[TroyHouse66]

Thank you, Pete
We had fears when Toshi passed, the wind would leave your sails.
Thanks for carrying the Light...

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[husky8273]

Few folks know that Pete was another Harvard drop out. It almost seems a better career path to drop out of Harvard than to finish. Right, Mr. Gates.

he also graduated from Avon Old Farms

 

[Icebear]

Yes, he did as did my nephew; a couple of years apart.

 

[UConnChapette]

RIP Pete Seeger. Join up with Harry and give the angels an inspiring concert.

 

[VAMike23]

Another fine essay on Pete Seeger from the Los Angeles Review of Books website:

LINK

--"Pete Seeger was in this way an embodiment of the folk process, with its roots in community rather than in individual assertion. He was a conduit through which every member of his audience could get in touch with each other and with singers who were far away or long dead. It was a rare event in a time when isolation was the norm. And unlike Facebook or Twitter, where people connect with already like-minded others, a Seeger concert might create those connections on the spot. 'You know this song. Sing along.”' "