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Pete Seeger Dead: Folk Singer and Activist Dies at 94 The weather conditions are not available. change weather location News Sports Music Radio TV My Region More Watch Listen Search SeaSrcighn Up | Log In IN THE NEWS ■ Liberal senators ■ Data privacy World ■ Rob Ford ■ Stephen Hawking CBC News Home World Canada Politics Business Health Arts & Entertainment Technology & Science Community Weather Video World Photo Galleries Pete Seeger dead: folk singer and activist dies at 94 Seeger became famous as a member of The Weavers quartet, formed in 1948 The Associated Press Posted: Jan 28, 2014 1:54 AM ET | Last Updated: Jan 29, 2014 6:14 PM ET Stay Connected with CBC News Mobile Facebook Podcasts Twitter Alerts Newsletter American troubadour, folk singer and activist Pete Seeger died Monday Jan. 27, 2014, at age 94. Here, Seeger Must Watch performs on stage during the 2013 Farm Aid concert in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Here's a look at his life in pictures. (Hans Pennink/The Associated Press) 1 of 11 Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant 'They crucified me:' Ads for 'the drunk guy in workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that Ukrainian protester the back of the room' introduced generations of Americans to their folk music heritage, died (graphic images) 5:53 Monday at the age of 94. 3:25 Super Bowl ad review Pete Seeger dies at 94 2:28 Seeger's grandson, Kitama Cahill-Jackson said his grandfather died at Dmytro Bulatov says he and a primer on the was kidnapped on Jan. theory and practice of New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he'd been for six days. "He was 22 and tortured how to construct them chopping wood 10 days ago," he said. ■ Concert celebrates Seeger on his 90th birthday Peter Yarrow sings for Pete Seeger 6:14 ■ Seeger earns American Academy of Arts and Letters honour Facebook 10K Seeger — with his a lanky frame, banjo and full white beard — was an iconic figure in folk music. He performed with the great minstrel Woody 'We are still on a journey China New Year exodus Twitter 1 Guthrie in his younger days and marched with Occupy Wall Street to the truth,' Kercher 2:37 protesters in his 90s, leaning on two canes. He wrote or co-wrote If I Had sister 76 a Hammer, Turn, Turn, Turn, Where Have All the Flowers Gone and All over China people 8:17 have been on the move to Share 10K Kisses Sweeter Than Wine. He lent his voice against Hitler and nuclear Meredith Kercher's family visit relatives for the power. A cheerful warrior, he typically delivered his broadsides with an hold news conference Lunar New Year Email affable air and his banjo strapped on. after verdict upheld "Be wary of great leaders," he told The Associated Press two days after a 2011 Manhattan Occupy march. "Hope that there are many, many small Related Stories leaders." Most Viewed ■ Q remembers Pete ■ Seeger Helped revive folk music Falling loonie means just more milking of Canadian converted by Web2PDFConvert.com Seeger Helped revive folk music consumers: Neil Macdonald 2130 ■ CBC MUSIC: Folk With the Weavers, a quartet organized in 1948, Seeger helped set the legend and stage for a national folk revival. The group — Seeger, Lee Hays, Ronnie ■ Amanda Knox murder conviction upheld by Italian outspoken activist court Pete Seeger Gilbert and Fred Hellerman — churned out hit recordings of Goodnight Irene, Tzena, Tzena and On Top of Old Smokey. ■ Concert celebrates ■ The state of the union speech Barack Obama would never give 601 folk icon Pete Seeger also was credited with popularizing We Shall Overcome, which he Seeger on his 90th birthday printed in his publication People's Song, in 1948. He later said his only ■ Royal Caribbean cruise leaves 600 people ill contribution to the anthem of the civil rights movement was changing the ■ Pete Seeger earns second word from "will" to "shall," which he said "opens up the mouth ■ Michael Schumacher, former F1 champ, being American Academy brought out of coma of Arts and Letters better." honour ■ Strategic Africa: Why the U.S. and Europe are sending "Every kid who ever in the troops 701 sat around a campfire singing an old song is ■ Eric Lawson, former Marlboro Man, dies of smoking- indebted in some way related disease to Pete Seeger," Arlo ■ Sochi Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov says Olympic city has Guthrie once said. no gays 755 ■ LISTEN: Peter ■ Pete Seeger dead: folk singer and activist dies at 94 Yarrow recalls Pete Seeger ■ Rangers hunt for crocodile that killed 12-year-old on As It Australian boy Happens His musical career was always braided tightly with his political activism, in which he advocated for causes ranging from civil The National rights to the cleanup Canada's destination for of his beloved Hudson original journalism and River. Seeger said he stories with added depth and context. left the Communist Party around 1950 and later renounced Legendary American folk musician Pete Seeger sings the it. But the association popular Cuban song La Guantanamera, with verses dedicated dogged him for years. to Cuban hero Jose Mati in 1999. (Reuters) He was kept off commercial television for more than a decade after The Lang & O'Leary tangling with the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955. Exchange Repeatedly pressed by the committee to reveal whether he had sung for On the day's biggest Communists, Seeger responded sharply: "I love my country very dearly, business stories. and I greatly resent this implication that some of the places that I have Weeknights at 7 p.m. ET sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my on CBC News Network opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American." He was charged with contempt of Congress, but the sentence was overturned on appeal. Seeger called the 1950s, years when he was denied broadcast exposure, the high 5 famous Pete Seeger point of his career. He was on the road songs touring college campuses, spreading the A pioneer of the modern folk music he, Guthrie, Huddie "Leadbelly" music movement and an Ledbetter and others had created or international inspiration of preserved. music as a peaceful yet effective means of protest, "The most important job I did was go from Pete Seeger wrote, co-wrote college to college to college to college, or popularized many songs one after the other, usually small ones," he now considered American told The Associated Press in 2006. "And I classics. His best-known showed the kids there's a lot of great songs include: music in this country they never played on ■ If I Had a Hammer - An the radio." activist tune co-written with His scheduled return to commercial the Weavers colleague Lee network television on the highly rated Hays, it is one of Seeger's Smothers Brothers variety show in 1967 most-covered songs. was hailed as a nail in the coffin of the ■ We Shall Overcome - blacklist. But CBS cut out his Vietnam Adapted from earlier gospel protest song, Waist Deep in the Big songs and a hymn, the tune Muddy, and Seeger accused the network became a key song of the of censorship. Civil Rights movement. He finally got to sing it five months later in ■ Turn, Turn, Turn - Made a stirring return appearance, although one famous by The Byrds, the song was adapted from an converted by Web2PDFConvert.com station, in Detroit, cut the song's last song was adapted from an stanza: "Now every time I read the excerpt from the Bible's papers/That old feelin' comes on/We're book of Ecclesiastes. waist deep in the Big Muddy/And the big ■ Where Have All the Flowers fool says to push on." Gone? - Inspired by a passage from the epic Inducted into Rock and Roll Russian novel And Quiet Hall of Fame Flows the Don, the song was officially inducted into Seeger's output included dozens of the Grammy Hall of Fame albums and single records for adults and under the folk category. children. ■ Kisses Sweeter Than Wine - He also was the author or co-author of Working again with American Favourite Ballads, The Bells of the Weavers bandmate Lee Rhymney, How to Play the Five-String Hays, Seeger transformed Banjo, Henscratches and Flyspecks, The a Lead Belly tune into this Incompleat Folksinger, The Foolish love song that also became Frog and Abiyoyo, Carry It On, Everybody a widely covered track. Says Freedom and Where Have All the Flowers Gone. He appeared in the movies To Hear My Banjo Play in 1946 and Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon in 1970. A reunion concert of the original Weavers in 1980 was filmed as a documentary titled Wasn't That a Time. By the 1990s, no longer a party member but still styling himself a communist with a small C, Seeger was heaped with national honours. Official Washington sang along — the audience must sing, was the rule at a Seeger concert — when it lionized him at Pete Seeger received a Distinguished Service award from the the Kennedy American Academy of Arts and Letters at the age of 92. (Joe Centre in 1994. Then Giblin/File/The Associated Press) president Bill Clinton hailed him as "an inconvenient artist who dared to sing things as he saw them." Seeger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as an early influence. Ten years later, Bruce Springsteen honoured him with We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, a rollicking reinterpretation of songs sung by Seeger.
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