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Spring 2009: Featuring Pete Seeger Standing Tall



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Pete Seeger

Standing Tall

Pete Seeger has had a long and productive career as a folk song leader and social activist. He grew up in a musical family. His father was the musicologist Charles Seeger and his mother, Constance, a classical violinist. At one point in his youth, Seeger and his brothers traveled with their parents in a wagon entertaining throughout the countryside. When he was sixteen...
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Los Camperos de Nati Cano
Win 2009 Grammy Award

Natividad "Nati" Cano was born in 1933...
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Kuna Indians from Panama

A series of over 360 islands make up the San Blas Archipelago...
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U.S.A. vs. Pete Seeger

In 1961 Seeger was subpoenaed for participating in "un-American activities."
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Afro-Cuban performance by Tío Tom
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