PBS airs Pete Seeger Tribute special tonight! RIP

Pete Seeger Tribute tonight on PBSTo honor the passing of folk legend, Pete Seeger, we will be re-airing the Emmy award winning film ‘Pete Seeger: The Power of Song’ on PBS (starting Jan. 30) , check your local station’s listings. http://to.pbs.org/1fkbQNj

Peter “Pete” Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and left-wing activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead Belly’s “Goodnight, Irene”, which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, he re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture and environmental causes.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger

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