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Source: Associated Press
@AP: BREAKING: American troubadour, folk singer and activist Pete Seeger has died at age 94, family says.
Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94
FOLK SINGER, ACTIVIST PETE SEEGER DIES IN NY
By MICHAEL HILL
Jan. 28, 2014 1:53 AM EST
NEW YORK (AP) American troubadour, folk music singer and activist Pete Seeger has died at a hospital in New York. He was 94.
Seeger's grandson, Kitama Cahill-Jackson, says Seeger died Monday night after being hospitalized for six days.
Seeger gained fame as a member of The Weavers, the quartet formed in 1948 and had hits such as "Goodnight Irene."
He continued performing and recording for six decades afterward and was still an activist as recently as October 2011 when he marched in New York City as part of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
He was onstage in January 2009 for a gala Washington concert two days before Barack Obama was inaugurated.
But in the 1950s, his leftist politics got him blacklisted and he was kept off commercial television for more than a decade.
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/folk-singer-activist-pete-seeger-dies-ny
I was there...
The Johnny Cash Show:
Janis Ian just posted this on her Facebook page. She says one of her earliest memories is of being on Pete's knee, with his banjo on the other.
From Wikipedia:
In 1960, the San Diego school board told him that he could not play a scheduled concert at a high school unless he signed an oath pledging that the concert would not be used to promote a communist agenda or an overthrow of the government. Seeger refused, and the American Civil Liberties Union obtained an injunction against the school district, allowing the concert to go on as scheduled. In February 2009, the San Diego School District officially extended an apology to Seeger for the actions of their predecessors.
Pete with Woody Guthrie:
2-Year-Old Pete with his Musical Family:
Rest in PEACE.