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Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow Release New Books

Poughkeepsie Journal | John W. Barry | Posted 11.30.2009 | Books

Read More: Books With Music, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Folk Singers, Pete Seeger, New Books, Day Is Done, Books, Children's Books, Peter Paul and Mary, Peter Yarrow, Books News

Two famous folksingers named Peter, who both have deep roots in the Hudson Valley, have released new books with accompanying CDs....

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Remembering Bess Lomax Hawes

Peter Dreier | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

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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HuffPost Reviews: Bon Jovi, The Killers, AC/DC, Sting, Tori Amos, and More, Plus This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Tori Amos, Richie Sambora, Jon Bon Jovi, David Mansfield, John Mellencamp, Pete Seeger, Queen, Sting, DJ Drama, America, Wyclef Jean, Bon Jovi, Ira Coleman, L'il Kim, The Killers, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cyndi Lauper, Dominic Miller, John Philip Shenale, Katheryn Tickel, Peter Paul & Mary, Bob Cratchit, Eve, The Royal Albert Hall, Julian Sutton, AC/DC, Dick Carruthers, Foo Fighters, Gerry Beckley, Mary Macmaster, Entertainment News, Jeff Larson, Bruce Springsteen, Vincent Segal, Donovon, Entertainment News

The eternally youthful Jon Bon Jovi and his disciples have built their ministry upon the same New Jersey rock that Bruce Springsteen assembled his flock, and the band used this album as a slight genuflection to their own glory days.

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It Takes The Village: Interviews with Shelby Lynne, Rickie Lee Jones, Michael Timmins, John Oates, Amos Lee, Rachael Yamagata, Steve Berlin, and More

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Amos Lee, The Decemberists, Leftover Salmon, Mississippi John Hurt, Sonny Terry, Los Lobos, The Lovin' Spoonful, Eric Andersen, Joe Ely, John Sebastian, Chip Taylor, Pete Seeger, Matt Umanov, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Hall & Oates, Brownie McGee, Greenwich Village, Woody Guthrie, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Fred Neil, Joan Baez, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, Daryl Hall, Rachael Yamagata, The Duhks, Sixpence None the Richer, Judy Collins, Doc Watson, Marshall Crenshaw, Art Alexakis, Bleecker Street, Bruce Hornsby, Lucinda Williams, Cowboy Junkies, Jerry Garcia, Dave Van Ronk, Suze Rotolo, Drew Emmitt, Bob Dylan, Tim Buckley, This Mortal Coil, Shelby Lynne, Rhino Records, Steve Berlin, Entertainment News, Rocco DeLuca, Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, John Oates, Richie Havens, 429 Records, Entertainment News

It's a little surprising that until now, no one has put together a tribute album to folk's fertile days in New York's Greenwich Village.

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An Interview with Dan Zanes, Plus Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson, Smokey & Santana, and More

Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment

With the new DVD release The Fine Friends Are Here!, Dan Zanes and Friends present colorful music and images that are not just for children, but also for the big kid in all of us.

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The Role of Song in Advancing Health Care Reform

Peter Yarrow | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Pete Seeger, Health Care Debate, Woody Guthrie, Song, Health Care, This Land Is Your Land, Politics News

Let us sing, not to confront or protest the absence of an equitable health care system, rather to affirm our commitment to allowing all Americans the right of affordable medical care.

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And The Rains Came

Sherman Yellen | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Rain, Rush Limbaugh, Rachel Maddow, Meryl Streep, Rupert Murdoch, Pete Seeger, Obama Family, Vegetarianism, Mark Sanford Affair, Global Warming, Arianna Huffington, Noah's Ark, Green News

The trouble this modern Noah faces is that virtually every wild animal is now an endangered species, as is much of mankind, so rule number one is no eating the passengers.

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Nanci Griffith Releases New Album, Plays At The Grammy Museum

Howie Klein | Posted 07.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Nanci Griffith, Tim McGraw, Odetta, Grammy-Museum, Pete Seeger, Tom Morello, Grammys, Patti Smith, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Entertainment News

The exhibit explores the 200-year history of music and politics in America, assembling over 100 diverse artifacts from government archives, private collections, and myriad musical artists.

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Remembering Tiananmen Square

Stephen Zunes | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Nonviolent Action, Folk Music, Human Rights, China, Tiananmen Square, Tiananmen Anniversary, Pete Seeger, Catskill Mountains, 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square, World News

On the eve of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, musicians sang together in the Catskill Mountains, protesting not only the tragedy unfolding in Beijing, but the betrayals of 20th century socialism.

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Pete Seeger, "Folk Music" and the Left

Jesse Larner | Posted 06.08.2009 | 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

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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Pete Seeger: A Legend in His Own Time

John W. Whitehead | Posted 06.06.2009 | Entertainment

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It is Pete Seeger's still vibrant optimism that is amazing. As he told me: "I tell everybody a little parable about the 'teaspoon brigades.' Imagine a big seesaw."

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All The Rage

Michael Sigman | Posted 06.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Pete Seeger, Bear Stearns Collapse, Erin Burnett, Wall Street, LA Weekly, New York Magazine, Home News

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out." --Francis Bacon Late in the pre-Google ...

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An Insider's (AKA Commie Jew's) Perspective on Pete Seeger's Birthday Concert!

Katie Halper | Posted 06.04.2009 | Entertainment

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Show starts. Native American Indian Cultural Alliance. I'm nervous that Pete will be a no show and is using concert to highlight the exploitation of Native Americans a la Marlon Brando at the 1973 Oscars.

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Pete Seeger Deserves One More Honor -- the Nobel Peace Prize

Peter Dreier | Posted 06.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Pete Seeger, Folk Music, Madison Square Garden, Nobel Peace Prize, Joan Baez, Birthday, Bruce Springsteen, Barack Obama, Pete Seeger Nobel Peace Prize, Pete Seeger Noble, Pete Seeger Concert, Home News

A truly modest man, Seeger has become a reluctant icon. But he deserves at least one more moment on the world stage -- at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Norway.

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Springsteen Leads Star-Studded 90th Birthday Concert For Pete Seeger

AP | JOHN CARUCCI | Posted 06.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Emmylou Harris, Arlo Guthrie, Music, Pete Seeger, Dave Matthews, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Tim Robbins, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — A star-studded medley of musical guests played tribute to Pete Seeger at a benefit concert for the legendary folk singer's 90th birth...

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For Pete's Sake

Daniel Menaker | Posted 06.03.2009 | Entertainment

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Pete Seeger's important role in the life of this nation and in the world of music for the last seventy years won't be fully understood until he's gone.

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Top 5 Greenest Bands, According To Billboard (VIDEO)

Billboard | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Music, John Legend, Tommy Lee, Activism, Pete Seeger, Green Living, Ludacris, Music, Cake, Radiohead, Green News

Billboard Magazine is unveiling its top ten green artists on Monday, but HuffPost Green got a little teaser. Greening tours has become fashionable...

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Pete Seeger: American Patriot

David Weinberger | Posted 02.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Folk Music, Patriotism, Pete Seeger, Obama Inauguration, Inauguration, Barack Obama, 1960s, Nobel Prize, Singing, Music, Entertainment News

In my household, growing up, Pete Seeger was the example of what a patriot looks like. A man of the people. A hero who had stayed true to his ideals. A singer happiest in a small circle of like souls.

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HuffPost Video Premiere: Playing For Change Presents "Don't Worry"

Mike Ragogna | Posted 02.19.2009 | Entertainment

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Featuring over twenty musicians from four continents who have never met, "Don't Worry" makes its auspicious debut today, on Martin Luther King Day, and is featured here.

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Jackson Browne Nails Nuke Power on Colbert Report

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 10.31.2008 | Green

Browne is a long-time opponent of atomic energy and an organizer of Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE).

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Panic, Anyone?

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Economy, John McCain, Herbert Hoover George W. Bush, Bear Market, Panic, Pete Seeger, Franklin Roosevelt, Depression, Barack Obama, Recession, Herbert Hoover, Politics News

While President Bush continues to toss around such euphemisms as "rough patch" and "tough times," most Americans have clearly felt the effects of a recession for the past few months.

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