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Some photos I took with my point-and-shoot at Newport Folk Festival Day 1. 8/1/09.Pete & Tao Seeger warm up backstage:More after the jump: Pete Seeger sing-a-long:Gillian Welch:The Low Anthem:Billy Bragg:Ben Kweller:
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Newport Folk Festival: Day 1 photos
Q&A With Newport Folk Festival Producer Bob Jones
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For my WTBU staff blog write-up of the Newport Folk Festival, I interviewed festival producer Bob Jones. Jones started as a festival volunteer in 1963, and has helped produce the festival since 1985. Only a few quotes were included in the WTBU blog, but here's the full Q&A, where Jones talks about his favorite Newport memories, seeing Dylan in 1965, the significance of the festival, and more....
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NPR to Broadcast Newport Folk/Jazz Fests
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As was the case last year, NPR Music will broadcast live from George Wein’s Folk Festival 50 - aka Newport Folk Festival - and CareFusion Jazz Festival 55 - aka Newport Jazz Festival - next month. You can check out the festivals via free, live audio webcasts at NPR Music, and live station broadcasts.[Photo by Drew Granchelli]NPR Music’s folk and jazz festival coverage will be available at npr.
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Pete Seeger’s 90th Birthday Concert To Air on PBS
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In case you were over at the “Dark Was The Night” show at Radio City that night (May 3), you can catch the Pete Seeger tribute concert on PBS starting on July 30.Pete Seeger 90th birthday celebration concert will air July 30 on PBS Television’s “Great Performances, according to a press release.The concert, held May [...]
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Set List: Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Show at Madison Square Garden
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Sunday night at Madison Square Garden, 51 artists played a 4-1/2 hour concert for 18,000 people in salute to the 90th birthday of folk great Pete Seeger.Participating were some of the people that followed in Seeger's footsteps, like Tom Paxton, all the way up to modern artists not normally associated with the folk genre, such as Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello.Thank you to Jessica R. and an
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Happy Birthday, Pete Seeger
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Album:We Shall Overcome The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert
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May 3, 2009 is Pete Seeger's 90th birthday. And he looks damn good. Here he is on January 18 this year at the Inaugural. Here's a song that gives us a little peek into part of the "folk process". My friends and I enjoyed singing and hearing this song so much we changed the name of our coffee house to The Back Of The Bus.
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Carnegie Hall
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And I thought seeing Tom Waits for the first time was something... Pete Seeger is the greatest living person. No doubt. It may have been close up until Paul Newman died, but now there's no question. Pete Seeger is it.
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Nobel Prize For Pete
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I have written several times about Pete Seeger, here and in my other music blog. I've always wanted to do something to let Pete Seeger know how much I appreciate the help that he gave to so many blues musicians.Simply put the man is a national treasure.Please check out www.nobelprize4pete.org, and give them as much support as you can.Pete Seger@SqueezeMyLemonPete Seeger, Sonny Terry & Brownie M...
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Wisteria and Taxes
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Few things in life can lift one's spirit like springtime in the South. The rains that turned the earth into an endless muddy swamp have rousted the greenery from its winter slumber. The bare winter branches of hardwoods are filling with buds and the underbrush brightened with the white blooms of Dogwood. Purple blooms of wisteria hang like ornaments decorating the trees along the back roads....
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NPR to Broadcast Newport Folk/Jazz Fests
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As was the case last year, NPR Music will broadcast live from George Wein’s Folk Festival 50 - aka Newport Folk Festival - and CareFusion Jazz Festival 55 - aka Newport Jazz Festival - next month. You can check out the festivals via free, live audio webcasts at NPR Music, and live station broadcasts.[Photo by Drew Granchelli]NPR Music’s folk and jazz festival coverage will be available at npr.
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Madonna's hoochie: Bad. Murderous dictator: Good. The Gospel according to Cardinal Medina
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I'm so glad that we have upright churchmen like Chile's Jorge, Cardinal Medina who know what's good and what's evil and want to tell us about it.Lustful Madonna offends God, says clergyman Pop star Madonna's antics are lustful, a stain on humanity and offensive to God, a retired Roman Catholic cardinal said Wednesday during a mass for the late Chilean military dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet.Mad...
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Pete Seeger To Come To The Aid Of New England Farmers
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Folk singer Pete Seeger will headline a Sept. 13 New England Farm Relief Concert in Brattleboro, Vermont to raise money for a new micro-loan program being developed by The Carrot Project and the organization that operates the town's annual Strolling of the Heifers, reports Yahoo.The Strolling of the Heifers is an annual event in Brattleboro in which flower-bedecked young cows are paraded down M...
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