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Happy Birthday, Pete Seeger

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Almanac Singers, Tom Morello, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Folk Music, Nobel Peace Prize, If I Had a Hammer, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Ani DiFranco, Weavers, Bruce Springsteen, Newport Folk Festival, Pete Seeger Birthday, Politics News
Peter Dreier

Today is Pete Seeger's 93rd birthday. What's an appropriate gift for the most influential folk artist of the 20th century? A few years ago some of Pete's fans launched a campaign to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize. It is time to resurrect that effort.

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Remembering Bess Lomax Hawes

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Folklore, San Fernando Valley State College, Smithsonian Institution, Folk Arts, Pete Seeger, Jacqueline Steiner, Folk Music, Woody Guthrie, Mta, John Lomax, Sing It Pretty, Almanac Singers, Bryn Mawr College, Butch Hawes, Alan Lomax, Bess Lomax Hawes, Guitar, National Endowment for the Arts, Walter O'Brien, Politics News
Peter Dreier

Throughout her life, Bess Lomax Hawes was a political radical who fought for a better future, but who also understood the importance of preserving the many cultural traditions of America's past.

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