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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.
In 1966, Pete Seeger and his wife Toshi Seeger founded the organization and within three years had the sloop Clearwater built to advocate for cleaning up the Hudson River. The founding was influenced by community opposition to a proposed power plant at Storm King Mountain. [3]
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 ...
Toshi Seeger, wife of folk singer Pete Seeger introduced her to ceramics. Sauvion recalls one 10-day interval when their husbands were away on concert tours. Toshi offered to teach her to use a potter's wheel.
Though A Complete Unknown is about Bob Dylan, the film also dives deep into the life of Pete Seeger.. The folk singer was instrumental in discovering and mentoring Dylan, and the film follows how ...
Pete Seeger sang in my mother’s camps when she was in the Catskills in her youth. I listened to Pete Seeger records as much as I listened to Bob Dylan records when I was a teenager.
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.