The Pete Seeger Birthday Celebration: May 3 (Tuesday): Evansville, IN

Photo credit: Joel Landy, Songs of Freedom, www.singfreedom.org . Photo came from the People's Music Network website www.peoplesmusic.org . PMN is an organization that Pete has been a member of for many years.

For a chronological list of events, see "Celebration Cities" in the left panel below.

An appreciation of Pete Seeger's music and work on his 86th birthday, May 3, 2005.

Events are planned throughout the country on or around May 3 to honor Pete's music and all Pete has done and is doing in so many ways to help make this a better world.

If you'd like to be a part of this nationwide outpouring of appreciation and affection, this is the place to find out what is happening near you, or for you to let everyone know about an event that you would like to coordinate.

We encourage events to be free and open to the public where possible.

It was a great celebration -- this site is now closed until next year!

Read: Pete Seeger is 86 by Studs Terkel, in The Nation

Tuesday, May 03, 2005

May 3 (Tuesday): Evansville, IN

Celebration at Smitty's Little Tavern

From the Courier & Press April 29 article by Roger McBaine:

"On Tuesday, Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking, folk-singing environmentalist, pacifist and human rights champion whose "We Shall Overcome" became the anthem of the civil rights movement, will mark his 86th birthday.

An acoustic banjo purist, Seeger once tried to pull the plug on Bob Dylan's amplifier. That won't keep "Electric" Larry Miller and friends from celebrating Seeger's birthday.

They'll mark the event at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Smitty's Little Tavern, 2109 W. Franklin St. (812) 423-6280

It's part of a nationwide, unorganized celebration honoring "the grandfather of folk music," says Miller.

Take guitars, banjos and old songbooks if you have them, says Miller. If not, just go and listen, clap along or join in singing birthday songs to a folk legend."