There is probably no more influential and important name associated with the mid-20th century rise and discovery of folk music than Pete Seeger. Seeger was born in New York City in 1919, the son of Charles Seeger, a well-known musicologist who turned the Seeger children (Pete, Mike and Peggy) into practitioners of traditional folk music. His mother was a violin teacher. The Seeger children took up banjo but Mike and Peggy became proficient at a number of instruments while Pete is known primarily for banjo (and ukulele), moving from the four-string instrument to the five-string banjo that became his trademark. Continued...
