Pete Seeger was best known as a folk singer, an archivist and writer, and the purveyor of such beamed-from-the-heavens standards as “We Shall Overcome,” “If I Had a Hammer” and “Turn, Turn, Turn.” But ...

I went over to Bryant Park yesterday afternoon, behind the New York Public Library, to hear Pete Seeger, whom I admire. I wrote a profile of Seeger a few years ago, which became a book, and which ...

Within 12 hours of Pete Seeger’s death, he’d been eulogized far and wide, hailed as a “champion of folk music”, “one of the most enduring and best-loved folk singers of his generation” and “one of the ...

Simon & Garfunkel's 1964 debut album, 'Wednesday Morning, 3 AM,' is best known for the original version of 'The Sound of Silence,' but it also includes this stirring antiwar protest song. Written in ...

If you want to remember Pete Seeger, you can become an environmental activist, like he was. Or you can battle racism and bigotry, as he did. Or show support for the poor and the working class, as he ...

The 91-year-old folk legend still believes in the power of song to transform society. Hans Pennink / AP Performing on the Late Show with David Letterman in 2008, Pete Seeger did the unthinkable: He ...

With his warbly voice and backwoods smile, Pete Seeger might have been the hippie’s hippie, a folk singer who maintained his Ghandi-esque tranquillity even while persecuted by Joe McCarthy and stoned ...

Legendary folk singer Pete Seeger turns 90 Sunday. That in itself is remarkable. Several pop, rock, blues and jazz veterans I thought to be pretty old still haven’t reached 90: Fats Domino is 81; ...

NEW YORK --Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk music ...