The Pete Seeger Birthday Celebration

  Photo of Pete Seeger: Joel Landy 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.

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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!


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

Friday, May 06, 2005

May 6 (Friday): Portland, OR


Living Earth's Pete Seeger 86th Birthday Celebration

Living Earth's First Friday Community Potluck
Friday, May 6, 6:30-9:00 p.m.
Friends Meeting House
4312 SE Stark
Portland, Oregon

The first week of May is time for celebration-not only for the international May Day festivals of labor and pagan Beltane on May 1, but to honor legendary American folksinger Pete Seeger on his 86th birthday May 3.

Folk music has always been central to people's struggles for justice, autonomy, dignity, democracy, and peace. For some 60 years now, Pete Seeger's inimitable voice has carried the songs of those movements across our land and around the world. As we honor Pete at First Friday, we will also celebrate the immeasurable contribution of countless other folk musicians, both acclaimed and unknown, whose songs and spirits have given voice to our common longings for a better world.

Since people first banded together to claim rights and power over their lives and communities, from drumbeats to reed flutes to banjos and guitars, music has accompanied our laments, stirred up our courage, and given voice to our longing. "All music is folk music, since all music is made by folks," Pete Seeger has said, but the particular style and form commonly known as American folk music found one of its strongest, most principled voices in Pete.

Join us on First Friday when we honor Pete Seeger and folk singers everywhere for their priceless contribution to our culture and to the world

Bring a vegetarian or vegan dish to share, a fiddle or banjo or whatever you play, and join us for our celebration of folk music this month. There is no charge, but donations are what make First Fridays possible.

www.livingearthgatherings.org/ff_seeger.html

posted by Larry |