A Multitude of Musicians Performing Songs Written By/About Pete Seeger

Friday, April 11, 2014, 7:30 p.m.Unity Hall, All Souls UU Congregation
19 Jay Street, New London, CT
No reservations or ticket sales for this concert.
Your free will donations will benefit Save The Sound, a bi-state program of the Connecticut Fund for the Environment
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.

“Participation! It’s what all my work has been about.” – Pete Seeger
For nearly 70 years as a performer, Pete Seeger embodied the ideals of folk music – communication, entertainment, social comment, historical continuity, inclusiveness. The songs he wrote, and those he discovered and shared, helped preserve our cultural heritage, imprinting adults and children with the sounds, traditions and values of our global past and present. A fearless warrior for social justice and the environment, Pete’s political activism – from the Civil Rights movement and anti-McCarthyism to resistance to fascism and the wars in Vietnam and the Middle East – has become the template for generations of musicians and ordinary citizens with something to say about the world … (adapted)
… a man whom Carl Sandburg called “America’s Tuning Fork” … His performances have touched millions for more than seven decades. Bob Dylan called him a saint. Joan Baez said, “We all owe our careers to him.”  David Dunaway
Visit the Pete Seeger Appreciation Page

Performers include: Geoff Kaufman, Hugh Birdsall, Sherwood (Sherry Stidfole and John  Woods – Woody), Bill and Kay Pere, Jay Franklin, Nick Evento, Lorain Ohio and Scott Mayfield, Bil Groth, Barbara Harvey, Marcus M. Worthington, The Carolans, Sandy Pliskin, Marilyn Lowney, Dan and Liz Spurr, Madry Temple Choir, Grace Glynn, Arlene and Friends.