Bob Dylan has always had a fraught relationship with the world of progressive social change. He wrote some of the most ...
Toward the end of A Complete Unknown, a good biopic about Bob Dylan that opened on Christmas, there is a key scene in which ...
Over the course of nearly 75 years, the singer, songwriter and activist Pete Seeger used his pen and his voice to champion many causes: civil rights, farmworker and labor rights, and the environment.
Peter Yarrow, who was one third of the popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary and co-writer of the song “Puff, the ...
When Seeger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, Arlo Guthrie noted the song's success, adding, "I can't think of a single event in Pete's ... with a local children's chorus ...
“The folk scene gave him his leg up,” Seeger says of the period covered by the film. “He borrowed mercilessly from the folk scene. He used folk tunes for some of his songs.” Seeger had ...
Director James Mangold said, "Go out and mine Pete Seeger and bring me back a bunch of gold," says the actor The post Edward ...
The Wood Dale Public Library will present “The American Folk Song with Mark Dvorak” on Thursday, Jan. 16. It will begin at 1 ...