Happy Birthday Pete Seeger!

The guy is remarkable. I don't think any genre of music has ever had someone so central to it as American Folk Music and Pete Seeger. Member of the first and the most famous Folk singing groups, (the Almanac Singers & the Weavers), many thousands of performances, co-organizer of the Newport Folk Festival (and many more), many dozens of released albums (and on virtually all the major Folk labels), many dozens of songs written - some of which have become major anthems, significant contributor to Folk magazines, archivist, knows everyone, friend of Woody, etc. etc.
One of my happiest moments was hosting an appearance by him at my store. Linda has a photo of me getting some obscure albums signed by him, (Pete was impressed!) - I am beaming. An amazing life.

http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/seeger.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger

http://www.icebergradio.com/artist/1167/pete_seeger.html