Pete Seeger Concert

[thnidu]

On Thursday I took the afternoon off to go to a concert by Pete Seeger, his grandson Tao Rodríguez-Seeger, and Guy Davis. It was just an hour, part of a kids' concert series.

Notes:
(from PDA)
Seeger Concert
[2008.08.07 01:48:20 pm]
In World Café Live, waiting for the show to start (nominal 2pm). Pete Seeger!

Most of the songs, they were all playing and/

Comments

[jwg]

Most cool.

I first encountered Pete Seeger when he came to my school when I was in ~4th grade ~1948. His brother, John taught there. Later I was a councillor at John's summer camp and I did visit Pete's house in Beacon, NY one day - he wasn't there, but another co-councillor was house sitting and went to visit him.

I learned to play the banjo from his How to play the 5 String Banjo book which I still have somewhere in a pile of folk music books.

[tigerbright]

I too grew up on Pete Seeger - you probably knew that. :)

I have the LP of the Weavers reunion concert. I need to get a CD so I can have it in my MP3 collection, too.

I really want to get the DVD of "The Power of Song."

And if he's only having mild (if relatively frequent) memory lapses, at 85? That's really not bad.

[skzbrust]

I also grew up on The Weavers. I've only seen him in person twice. There's a story about the first time--ask me about it sometime if you aren't in a hurry. :-)

I hope you're wrong, I fear you're right, and it's good you got to see him.

[dan_ad_nauseam]

I was talking with Kate Soley Barton after the Political Fandom panel at Denvention, and told her the story about the aftermath of a Seeger concert at Oberlin in 1989. The Friday after the show, the campus paper published a letter accusing Seeger of political insensitivity in playing non-Anglo-American songs.

The next week, a cartoon appeared featuring Seeger's publicity photo with the caption "Guaranteed to Offend."

(BTW, what were the Denvention organizers thinking when they created a Gnome Chomski t-shirt for a con you weren't at?)