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Folktronica: Folk Singer Embraces the New for the Sake of Progress

Marcel Hidalgo | Posted 05.14.2013 | Arts
Read More: Celtic, Folktronica, The Beatles, Chords of Truth, South Carolina, Kingston Trio, Computers, Pete Seeger, Folk Music, Woody Guthrie, Joe Hill, Electronica, Music, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Mccarthy Era, Jason Garriotte, Arts News
Marcel Hidalgo

Bob Dylan was smart enough to pull out an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 and "rocktify" his folk music. Now, Jason Garriotte appears to be following in the steps of Dylan by reaching a different type of folk and changing the aspects of the experience.

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Pete Seeger Continues to Inspire "Tomorrow's Children"

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: This Land Is Your Land, Toshi Seeger, Lee Hays, Tomorrow?S Children, Kingston Trio, Rivertown Kids, Pete Seeger, Appleseed Recordings, Hudson River, Turn! Turn! Turn!, Woody Guthrie, Beacon New York, The Weavers, Sing Out! Magazine, Alan Lomax, Tery Udell, Dan Einbender, Clearwater Environmental Organization, We Shall Overcome, Peter Paul and Mary, Goodnight Irene, Tom Morello, Obama Inauguration, If I Had a Hammer, David Bernz, Fred Hellmeran, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, Archive of American Folk Song, Library of Congress, Leadbelly, Ronnie Gilbert, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Rufus Wainwright, The Bells of Rhymey, Bruce Springsteen, Byrds, Guantanamara, Entertainment News
Holly Cara Price

91 year old Pete Seeger recently told a Rolling Stone journalist that his new album, Tomorrow's Children, is "the most inspiring thing I've ever done....

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Pete Seeger, "Folk Music" and the Left

Jesse Larner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Fellow Travelers, James Lileks, Banjo, Joseph Stalin, Barbarossa, Ron Radosh, Pete Seeger, March on Washington, Folk Music, Woody Guthrie, Nicaragua, Bob Dylan, Mark Steyn, Kingston Trio, World War Two, Yalta, Billy Bragg, Communism, Doc Watson, Mao Zedong, Guitar, Leninism, Joan Baez, Franklin Roosevelt, Kim Il-Sung, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, Medgar Evers, Amy Goodman, Entertainment News
Jesse Larner

As someone on the left who loves folk music, I understand that I'm supposed to feel mystically uplifted by the dean of activist folkies. But I never could stand Pete.

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Will Charlie Ever Get Off That Train?

Peter Dreier and Jim Vrabel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Kingston Trio 50th Anniversary, Folklore, Folk Music, Folk Songs, Mta, Protest Music, Kingston Trio, Oregon, Entertainment News
Peter Dreier and Jim Vrabel

Since the Kingston Trio's self-censored version became a hit fifty years ago, "M.T.A." has become a part of American folklore.

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