Seeger Fest: Opening Night will be an evening alongside Pete Seeger’s beloved Hudson River at Pier 46 in Manhattan. The Chapin Sisters, Kristen Graves and others will sing a one-hour concert with the backdrop of the setting sun. Then there will be a screening of Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, an Emmy-award winning documentary featuring Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt and Others. Bring dinner and a picnic blanket and celebrate Pete Seeger on a Hudson River pier. Arrive early. Seating is limited. 7:30 PM - Thursday, July 17, 2014 - Hudson River Park’s Pier 46 at Charles Street, Greenwich Village, New York, NY http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/events/pete-seeger-the-power-of-song Memorial Service for Pete Seeger is the only official memorial service for Pete Seeger. Friends and family come together to remember their friend, neighbor and mentor at a local Hudson Valley theater where Seeger played hundreds of times. Pete 7:00 PM – Friday, July 18, 2014 – Bardavon Opera House, 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Tickets are available for in-person pickup at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie. http://www.bardavon.org/event_info.php?id=751&venue=bardavon South Bronx Seeger Fest is a free festival on the Bronx River that includes hip-hop, reggae and folk music, boat rides and free food provided by Lola’s Tacos. Artists include Jasiri X, the reggae group Rootz Revelators, The Owens Brothers, The Chapin Sisters, Kristen Graves, The Tony Lee Thomas Band and Julia Haltigan plus surprise guests. The event is hosted by Rocking the Boat. Rocking the Boat builds boats with Bronx teens and then does environmental science with them on the Bronx River. Pete Seeger was involved in Rocking the Boat and it was one of his favorite community organizations doing grassroots work to empower youth while changing the world. Noon – 6:00 PM – Saturday, July 19, 2014 – Hunt’s Point Riverside Park, Lafayette Ave. and Edgewater Rd., Bronx, NY 10474 Pete and Toshi Seeger Film and Photo Exhibit will be a gallery opening of rarely seen film footage and photographs by and of Pete and Toshi Seeger. While Pete was known for writing songs as Turn! Turn! Turn! and co-writing If I Had a Hammer and Where Have All the Flowers Gone? few people know that he and his wife made films about music across nationally and internationally in the fifties and sixties. 8:00 PM – Saturday, July 19, 2014 – El Taller Latino Americano, 2710 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10025 A Memorial Concert for Pete and Toshi Seeger is a free, large-scale event presented by Lincoln Center Out of Doors. The musicians who knew Pete Seeger the best and worked with him the most are coming together to play tribute to their lifelong friend and mentor. There will be performances by Judy Collins, Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary, Holly Near, Fred Hellerman of The Weavers, Paul Winter Consort, Dar Williams & Dan Zanes, Martha Redbone, Guy Davis, George Wein, Tom Chapin & The Chapin Sisters, David Amram with Adira & Alana Amram, Tiokisan Ghosthorse, Emma’s Revolution, Kim & Reggie Harris, Mike + Ruthy, Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion and many others. Speakers will include singer/activist Harry Belafonte and filmmaker Michael Moore. 4:00 PM – Sunday, July 20, 2014 –Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Damrosch Park, W. 62nd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, New York, NY 10023 http://lcoutofdoors.org/events/a-memorial-concert-for-pete-and-toshi-seeger New Songs of Justice: An Evening Honoring Pete Seeger is a Hip-hop, Indie-rock, punk and folk show where artists come together who are committed to using music as a tool for change. Produced and hosted by Gina Belafonte, Harry Belafonte’s daughter, Kitama Cahill-Jackson, Pete Seeger’s grandson and music activist Jason Samel, this concert brings brings very different musicians together who stand for a common cause: using music as a way to fight injustice. Artists include Amanda Palmer (solo acoustic), Anti-Flag (acoustic), Michael Glabicki of Rusted Root, Steve Earle, Rebel Diaz, Toni Blackman, James Maddock, Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion and many others. There will be sets by DJ Kool Herc. 6:00 PM – Monday, July 19, 2014 – SummerStage in Central Park, Rumsey Playfield, Near E. 72nd Street and 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10019 Seeger Fest Sponsors Lincoln Center Out of Doors - http://lcoutofdoors.org/ City Parks Foundation/SummerStage - http://www.cityparksfoundation.org/calendar/the-metropolitan-opera-summer- recital-series/ Hudson River Park - http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/about-us/hrpt Bardavon Opera House - http://www.bardavon.org/ Sankofa - http://www.sankofa.org/ Music for Occupy/Movement Music Records - http://www.movementmusicrecords.com/ Rosenberg Fund for Children – http://www.rfc.org El Taller Latino Americano - http://www.tallerlatino.org/ Rocking the Boat - http://www.rockingtheboat.org/ Hudson River Foundation - http://www.hudsonriver.org/ Beacon Sloop Club - http://www.beaconsloopclub.org/ The Ashokan Center - http://ashokancenter.org/ Hudson River Sloop Clearwater - http://www.clearwater.org/ Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund - http://www.davisputter.org/ .