Atlanta Musician Celebrates 100 Years Of Pete Seeger With Album, Concert
Singer Pete Seeger is seen here with John McCutcheon, who will perform a 100th birthday concert for Seeger at the Red Clay Music Foundry on Sunday.
Tom Chapin
Friday marks the 100th birthday of iconic American musician and activist, Pete Seeger.
To celebrate the centennial of the man who brought us some of the most moving songs of a generation, singer/songwriter John McCutcheon recorded “To Everyone in All the World: A Celebration of Pete Seeger.”
McCutcheon will also perform a 100th birthday concert for Seeger at the Red Clay Music Foundry on Sunday.
McCutcheon calls Seeger a friend and a mentor. The two performed together many times.
“He showed up at a concert of mine at a festival in 1974,” he tells “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes, “he came backstage afterwards, and we began something that lasted the rest of his life.”
“He was a remarkable man, a great citizen, a great American, and a wonderful musician who transformed the way we think about the banjo, introduced many people to the 12-string guitar, and gave us songs that are so much a part of our vocalbulary… ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone?,’ ‘Turn Turn Turn,’ ‘If I Had A Hammer.’ These are songs that I bet most Americans think are just traditional songs.”
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