He sang topical songs, children’s songs, humorous tunes and earnest anthems, and was always encouraging his audience to sing along. He played the 12-string guitar and (his own modified, longneck) 5-string banjo. Seeger was a thin man, almost painfully so, but he had a strong tenor voice and a gregarious stage presence.
Civil Rights Movement and environmental causes. Seeger made a comeback in the 60s with several folk songs supporting international disarmament, the U.S. Joe McCarthy’s Senate sub-committee on un-American Activities as Communist sympathizers. Seeger founded The Almanac Singers in 1940 and later joined The Weavers in the 1949, but that group ran into the buzzsaw of the Red Scare in 1955. Seeger’s father and mother were faculty members at the Julliard School of Music. His father was Charles Seeger, a musicologist and proselytizer of decidedly leftist political views. He became a protege of Woody Guthrie and in time he became one of the most famous American folk singers. Peter Seeger ( – 27 January 2014) was born in New York, New York and was destined for a life in folk music.
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