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Toshi Seeger (born Toshi Aline Ohta; July 1, 1922 – July 9, 2013) was an American filmmaker, producer and environmental activist.A filmmaker who specialized in the subject of folk music, Toshi's credits include the 1966 film Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison and the Emmy Award-winning documentary Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, released through PBS in 2007. [1]
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer-songwriter, musician and social activist. He was a fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, and had a string of hit records in the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene," which topped the charts for 14 weeks in 1950.
The folk revival in New York City was rooted in the resurgent interest in square dancing and folk dancing there in the 1940s, which gave musicians such as Pete Seeger popular exposure. [6] [7] [8] Margot Mayo introduced Pete Seeger to his future wife, Toshi, who was in Mayo's square dance troupe. "They were a match since they met at a square ...
The proposed Hudson River Folk Festival would revive a legacy of Pete Seeger, the late folk legend and activist who founded the Clearwater Festival with his wife, Toshi, in the 1970s. A new ...
Composer Ruth Crawford Seeger, Peggy Seeger's mother. Seeger's father was Charles Seeger (1886–1979), a folklorist and musicologist; her mother was Seeger's second wife, Ruth Porter Crawford (1901–1953), a modernist composer who was the first woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship.
This led Pete Seeger to create his song "My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage", presenting her statements and what she had endured since her days in Nuremberg. [3] [5] From 1967 to 1972, she coordinated the San Jose Peace Center. She remained active as a pacifist into her eighties, criticizing the Iraq War since it started in 2003. [3]
Erik Darling died August 3, 2008, aged 74, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, from lymphoma. [21] After a long career in music and activism, Pete Seeger died at the age of 94 on January 27, 2014, in New York City. Ronnie Gilbert died at the age of 88 on June 6, 2015. [22]
These words were taken from Moore's wife Geraldine's statement upon learning of her husband's death. [2] Pete Seeger sang the song in 1963 at the We Shall Overcome concert at Carnegie Hall (and recorded it on his 1963 album Broadside Ballads, Vol. 2), in a minor key, inserting the words in the refrain: "How come he died and what's the reason for?".