An interview with Curator and Producer Jeff Place about Pete Seeger, the celebrations for Seeger’s 100th birthday, and the retrospective album recently released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

Legendary folk singer Pete Seeger turns 90 Sunday ... But mostly I get audiences singing.” These songs will outlive Seeger, and maybe he will have had something to do with that.

Though Pete Seeger, the heralded folk singer, songwriter and social activist died in 2014, his voice has left a lasting impression on American music. May 3, 2019 would have been Seeger's 100th ...

I saw Pete Seeger play live in 1991. I was 17. He was 71. While I had a few Bob Dylan albums back then, the bulk of my collection came from Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Guns N’ Roses and whatever ...

Pete Seeger, "a tireless campaigner for his own ... Seeger's tools "were his songs, his voice, his enthusiasm and his musical instruments." The songs he'll be long remembered for include "If ...

“Pete is America’s tuning fork,” author and oral historian Studs Terkel once wrote. “His songs capture the essence and beauty of this country.” Photographs of the tall, lanky Seeger in ...

For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. The first concert I ever saw was Pete Seeger playing Carnegie Hall in 1970 when I was a toddler. (“What took your parents so long?” ...

“But if they’re only buying it to listen to it and not trying to learn one of the songs, I’d say don’t buy it.” Pete Seeger performs on “Camera Three” on Nov. 30, 1965.CBS/Getty ...

The celebrated San Francisco string group Kronos Quartet have shared their take on Pete Seeger’s “Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” from their upcoming tribute album, Long Time Passing ...

Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt covered it on the 1988 various-artist compilation 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone: The Songs of Pete Seeger,' finding new romanticism through the song's reggae ...