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Bruce to play Pete Seeger's 90th
Rehearsal shows aren't the only ones to go on sale shortly. Springsteen is on the bill for Pete Seeger's 90th birthday party, a May 3 benefit concert at Madison Square Garden, and ticket sales begin Monday.
Clearwater: Creating the Next Generation of Environmental Leaders
hosts a benefit concert in celebration of
Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
http://www.seeger90.com/
direi che dai nomi, un very very big show!!!
Per esempio:
Pete Seeger, Richie Havens, Bruce Springsteen Steve Earle, Dave Matthews, Taj Mahal, Eddie Vedder, Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine), John Mellencamp, Ani DiFranco, Arlo Guthrie, Ben Harper, Billy Bragg, Bruce Cockburn, Emmylou Harris, Joan Baez, Tom Paxton, Ramblin' Jack Elliott...and many more
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il 20 Marzo lo segnalammo..ora ci siamo quasi
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Seeger Rings In 90th Springsteen-Style
Folk Singer, Known For His Protest Songs & Social Activism, To Be Honored At Madison Square Garden
(AP) When Emmylou Harris was a young girl trying to figure out whether she could have a career in music, she decided to seek advice from the wisest man she could think of - so she wrote a note to Pete Seeger.
She didn't know him, and he didn't know her: Seeger was already approaching legendary status, while she hadn't recorded a single tune. Yet, Harris was inspired by his integrity, and she'd learned to play the guitar by listening to his classic "Where Have All the Flowers Gone."
"I actually wrote him a letter, hand-printed, front and back, I don't know how many pages, saying I want to sing folk music, but I don't think I've suffered enough," she said, laughing. "He actually wrote me back ... basically saying life will catch up to me, and encouraged me to be bound for glory. Just hearing from him was one of the most amazing things that had ever happened to me, up to that point."
On Sunday, Harris will perform at Madison Square Garden in a tribute concert to Seeger on his 90th birthday. The event will also feature Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Eddie Vedder, John Mellencamp, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez and dozens of others.
The concert will surely be an homage to one of music's most revered voices, a man known for his poignant protest songs and social activism, from the fight for racial equality to labor rights and world peace.
He has been a fervent anti-war activist and is credited for popularizing the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome." His leftist politics (he was once a member of the Communist party, which he later renounced) got him blacklisted during the 1950s.
While his politics sometimes overshadowed his music, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member is considered one of folk music's greatest artists, and inspired artists ranging from Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen, who in 2006 released the album "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions," which features the Boss singing Seeger's songs.
But Seeger is not interested in celebrating past achievements at Sunday's event. He says he only agreed to take part in the event because it will benefit the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, a nonprofit organization he founded more than four decades ago to help preserve the river, which has suffered from pollution.
Funds from the concert will help restore the Clearwater, the huge boat Seeger built to draw people's attention to the organization. (Tickets ranged from $19.19, the year he was born, to $250, with the majority of seats at $90 to honor his birthday.)
"We need to raise an endowment fund" for the boat, said Seeger, who lives along the Hudson River in Beacon, in upstate New York. "I agreed to the concert, although I don't like big things."
Harris said putting the focus of the concert on the Clearwater is another example of Seeger's principles being paramount to his music.
"It's never been about Pete," said Harris, who will perform two of his songs. "It's always been about the world and what he believes in and doing the right thing and making the world a better place. He's really lived what he believes; I think it's an inspiring example for all generations."
Seeger will perform one song - but he's not saying which one. "No one knows except me. It's a secret," he said. (His many iconic songs include "If I Had a Hammer" and "Turn! Turn! Turn!")
Seeger, whose many honors include a Presidential Medal of the Arts, is typically humble when asked which song he'd most like to hear during the anticipated four-hour concert.
"They don't need to sing my songs, there are a lot of good songs," he said.
Seeger recently released a new album, "At 89," his first in five years. He played during the inauguration festivities for President Barack Obama in January and performed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in April.
But he prefers to sing and strum his signature banjo for children: "For the rest of my life I hope to sing only for the children ... and I like to sing with the kids in the school. Kids are the hope of the future."
By Nekesa Mumbi Moody
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Madison Square Garden 90th Birthday Tribute to Folk Music Legend Pete Seeger on Sunday
Many of the top names in American music, including Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp, Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson and literally dozens more will be performing at the Madison Square Garden 90th birthday tribute to folk music legend Pete Seeger on Sunday.
While the show is a fund-raising benefit for Clearwater, an environmental organization dedicated to protecting the Hudson River ecosystem, it's also an opportunity to celebrate the life and work of the guy who co-wrote folk music masterpieces such as “Where Have All the Flowers Gone," “If I Had a Hammer" and “Turn! Turn! Turn!" and played a major role in the American folk music scene of the mid-20th century that influenced countless young musicians and songwriters.
No one scheduled to be on that stage Sunday night has done more to popularize the work of Seeger than Roger McGuinn, whose band the Byrds took “Turn! Turn! Turn!" to the No. 1 spot on the pop charts back in 1965. By the time of the Byrds hit, McGuinn knew the song well as well as Seeger's entire songbook having played guitar on Judy Collins' version of the tune in 1964 and having been, says McGuinn, “a big fan of Pete's since I was a teenager." One early McGuinn encounter with Seeger was typical of the artist's populist political leanings.
“I was a student at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago back in the '50s, and Pete was supposed to do a big concert in Chicago," McGuinn tells Variety. “But the concert was canceled at the last minute, so Pete invited all the fans to an impromptu free concert out on a loading dock. He was my hero then and he still is."
McGuinn also sees the creation of Seeger's “Turn! Turn! Turn!" as emblematic of the man's unique mix of deep political convictions, spirituality and hunger to reach the masses with messages of hope and brotherhood.
“Pete's publisher back in the late '50s was complaining to him that all Pete was writing were 'protest songs' and he was having trouble selling them," recalls McGuinn. “Pete told him, 'I have bad news for you. That's what I do.' But it did inspire him to look past the protest songs for something else. So he picked up his Bible and found the passage in Ecclesiastes that he turned into the song.
“As Pete describes it, 'All I did was add a little nursery-rhyme melody to it.' But you notice that there is a line at the end of the song where Pete got his protest message in. It's Pete's words, not the Bible's, that says, 'A time for peace, I swear it's not too late.'"
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Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday
Sunday, 5 p.m. ET
Madison Square Garden, New York
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Start time 8:58PM
1. The Ghost of Tom Joad w/Tom Morello (and an introduction speech in tribute to Pete Seeger that lasted five minutes)
2. This Land Is Your Land (with Pete Seeger and pretty much everybody including Patti Scialfa)
3. Happy Birthday Pete (Everybody)
4. When the Saints Go Marching In (Outro Instrumental music with the house band including the saxophone player from Saturday Night Live and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, all the performers walk offstage to this song)
Encore: 5. Help Make the World Go (Not sure about the song title? Tao Rodriguez-Seeger got the song going and everyone including Bruce and Patti came back out minus Pete)
6. This Little Light of Mine (Everbody minus Pete)
7. Goodnight Irene (Everybody with Pete leading and with his family on stage)
End time 9:33PM (The Boss was on for these last 6 songs of the night for an estimated 35 minutes)
Postcard from the road: Pete Seeger's all-star hootenanny
By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY
More than 18,000 fans and friends showed up on Sunday night for a concert at Madison Square Garden honoring Pete Seeger's 90th birthday. USA TODAY was there, too.
The cause: Folk singer/songwriter, political/environmental activist and rock heroes' hero Pete Seeger turned 90 Sunday night, and some of his better-known disciples came out to celebrate. The birthday bash also was a benefit for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, a non-profit group founded by Seeger to preserve the Hudson.
The songs: Classic tunes that Seeger wrote or helped popularize were joined by songs reflecting his socially conscious spirit, including Bob Dylan's Maggie's Farm and Bruce Springsteen's The Ghost of Tom Joad, which the Boss performed with Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello. Morello and Taj Mahal teamed for Seeger's anti-war anthem Waist Deep in the Big Muddy. Joan Baez strummed a guitar through Where Have All the Flowers Gone, and John Mellencamp followed a lean acoustic If I Had a Hammer with his own Seeger-inspired A Ride Back Home. Dave Matthews remembered his mother bringing him to see Seeger ("my first concert") before singing Rye Whiskey.
Thejams: Several numbers brought folkies of various ages, and folkie families, together. Emmylou Harris joined second-generation troubadour Teddy Thompson (son of Richard and Linda Thompson), Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and Kate's children Rufus and Martha Wainwright — along with the New York City Labor Chorus and Sparrow Duo — for The Water Is Wide. Tim Robbins joined the Wainwrights on Michael, Row the Boat Ashore, and We Shall Overcome was a rousing ensemble number. The birthday boy performed in various groupings: with Mahal and Steve Earle, among others, for Sailin' Up, Sailin' Down; with the crowd for This Land Is Your Land; and with grandson Tao Rodriguez-Seeger and other relatives.
Other team efforts:Maggie's Farm brought together Kris Kristofferson, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Richie Havens, Warren Haynes and Mahal. Kristofferson and Ani DiFranco offered Hole in the Bucket, while DiFranco and Bruce Cockburn covered Which Side Are You On. Arlo Guthrie, Del McCoury and U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-N.Y., were part of the eclectic outfit performing Oh Mary Don't You Weep; Roger McGuinn, Ben Bridwell and Tyler Ramsey played Turn, Turn, Turn; and The Torn Flag featured Bela Fleck and Ruby Dee, the latter reading Seeger's poem.
The Boss' boss: Springsteen spoke with obvious affection before his set, referring to Seeger as "an archive of America's history and conscience." Seeger "carries inside him a steely toughness that belies a grandfatherly facade. He's going to look like your granddad if your granddad could kick your a—."
The lighter side: British folk rocker Billy Bragg joked about "strange times when a labor union can own a car company (Chrysler)." Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch joined Tom Chapin in a cheeky nod to Seeger's eco-consciousness on Garbage. And Seeger turned Amazing Grace into a singalong, telling the audience, "There's no such thing as a wrong note as long as you're singing."
Before the show: Harris said Seeger taught her that music "is all about the song, not about the person," and that it "can change and inform people." Morello saw inspiration "in how he combines uncompromising activism with heart and soul and generous spirit." Baez hailed Seeger as "the number one, the big daddy" of socially conscious musicians, adding that she sings the elegiac Flowers all over the world. "Its message is universal."
Robbins credited Seeger with proving that music can "not only lift up the spirit but enlighten."
In his own words: "Normally, I'm against big things," Seeger said of the event backstage. "I think the world's going to be solved by millions of small things." But "needless to say, I'm very honored."
The encore: Artists filled the stage for an encore set that included When the Saints Go Marching In and a medley of Well May the World Go and This Little Light of Mine.
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http://www.rai.tv/dl/RaiTV/programmi/media...4892-popup.html
il commento di backstreets.com:
"YOU OUTLASTED THE BASTARDS, MAN"
Springsteen salutes Seeger at Madison Square Garden for the big 9-0
Last night in New York, on an off night between Working on a Dream tour stops, Bruce appeared at The Clearwater Concert at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night in honor of Pete Seeger. Seeger's 90th birthday celebration was bookended by appearances from the honoree himself, nine decades under his belt and still going strong. In between, a wide variety of artists were there to celebrate the man and play his music: Emmylou Harris recounting correspondence she had with Pete as a young folk singer; Patterson Hood and Michael Franti teaming up for "Dear Mr. President," with other pairings including Tom Morello and Taj Mahal (on "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy"), and Ani DiFranco with Bruce Cockburn; Tim Robbins popping in and out; John Mellencamp offering up "If I Had a Hammer."
And then came Bruce. As the last artist of the night, Springsteen had the lengthiest remarks, with a speech that was an appreciation of Pete's place in history and of Pete as a repository of American history in himself. Bruce spoke of the folk legend's "stubborn, nasty, defiant optimism," and of Seeger as "the stealth dagger through the heart of our country's illusions about itself." Springsteen talked about his own youth, growing up in a town that endured race riots, and how times have changed: "Pete, you outlasted the bastards, man." He spoke about "This Land is Your Land," which he said Seeger moved from an anthem of the labor movement to one of the civil rights movement, and he described preparing for their duet on the song at the Inauguration, when Pete said: "I know I want to sing all the verses—all the ones that Woody wrote, even the two that usually get left out." Bruce summed up: "He sings all the verses, all the time—especially the ones we'd like to leave out of our history as a people."
"Pete's gonna come out," Bruce added, "He's gonna look like your granddad—if your granddad could kick your ass." But first, a performance from the Boss. Tom Morello joined him for "The Ghost of Tom Joad," on acoustics this time, trading verses and harmonizing on the chorus. It was a very energetic performance, clearly benefiting from their recent collaborations on the song with the E Street Band. After that, the stage filled with the night's artists for a grand finale. Seeger returned to the stage, and Patti Scialfa came out, too, for "This Land is Your Land." Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, Pete's grandson, led the throng through "Well May the World Go." Bruce was on guitar for "This Little Light of Mine," and joined in at the mic for the show-closing "Goodnight Irene." John Seeger, Pete's older brother, had one last birthday wish: "If I'm 95"—and he is—Pete's gonna live to be 100!. -
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No wrong notes at Seeger birthday concert
Tue May 5, 2009 9:38pm
by Frank Scheck
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - There was an appropriate egalitarianism on display Sunday at the 90th birthday tribute concert to Pete Seeger at Madison Square Garden.
Superstars including Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews and John Mellencamp received no more stage time than such veteran acts as Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Richie Havens and many others. The 4 1/2-hour show, filmed for broadcast on PBS in the summer, paid suitable tribute to the folk music legend and tireless political activist.
It also served as a fundraiser for the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, the organization Seeger founded to preserve and protect the Hudson River.
Most of the older performers had worked with the guest of honor, but even the younger ones had personal connections with him. Mellencamp introduced his solo rendition of "If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)" by announcing that it was the first song he learned to play on guitar. And Matthews, before unveiling an impressive falsetto on "Rye Whiskey," commented that Seeger headlined the first concert he ever attended.
Springsteen, who released a Seeger tribute album a few years back, talked at length about a man who he described as "looking like your 90-year-old grandpa, if your grandpa could kick your ass!" More seriously, he said, "At 90, he remains a stealth dagger into the country's illusions about itself." Springsteen then sang his "The Ghost of Tom Joad" as a duet with Tom Morello.
With many of the performers joining together for group numbers, the evening's highlights were numerous. They included a haunting "Fare Thee Well," performed by Rufus Wainwright, Teddy Thompson, the McGarrigle Sisters and Bruce Cockburn; a dazzling banjo medley by Bela Fleck and Tony Trischka, which playfully included "Happy Birthday to You"; Joan Baez showcasing her still-lustrous voice with the still-relevant "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"; Billy Bragg's a cappella rendition of "The Internationale," with his own rewritten lyrics; a rousing "We Shall Overcome," led by Seeger; Kris Kristofferson and Ani DiFranco's amusing duet on the children's song "Hole in the Bucket"; Richie Havens, looking like a biblical prophet, reprising his hit "Freedom"; and a killer lineup of Taj Mahal, Toshi Reagon, Steve Earle, Warren Haynes and Seeger trading verses on "Sailin' Up, Sailin' Down."
Although Seeger didn't sing all that much, he did lead the capacity audience on several sing-alongs, advising them, "There's no such thing as a wrong note."
The entire musical lineup -- which also included Roger McGuinn, Emmylou Harris, Ben Harper, Michael Franti, Dar Williams, Tom Paxton, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and even Oscar the Grouch from "Sesame Street," among many others -- gathered together for "This Land Is Your Land." Suitably enough for a singer of whom Springsteen said, "He sings all the verses, all the time, especially the ones we want to leave out of our history," this rendition of the Woody Guthrie classic included even the obscure verses that are usually omitted.
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SEEGER ON SCREEN: CLIPS ON BILLBOARD.COM, CONCERT COMING TO PBS
More from Pete Seeger's 90th courtesy of Billboard.com, with video clips including "The Ghost of Tom Joad" and "This Land is Your Land." Alexander P. Sherman's revew of the concert also notes that the night was filmed for a documentary; according to musicnewsnet.com, the concert will air in HD "in late summer on PBS" as part of the Great Performances series.
- May 7, 2009
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00k2...e_Seeger_at_90/
qui il link per billboard
da billboard
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/reviews-liv...003969131.story
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Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday / May 3, 2009 / New York (Madison Square Garden)
Alexander P. Sherman, N.Y.
We should all be so lucky to have a 90th birthday party, especially one like Pete Seeger’s. Madison Square Garden filled to a near capacity crowd on a rainy Sunday night to join the celebrities of folk music to celebrate Mr. Seeger, who dedicated his life to celebrating others through song. The concert was hosted by Seeger's Clearwater organization, the pioneering environmental group he founded in 1969 to preserve and protect the Hudson River.
During the concert, which was being filmed for a documentary, Seeger mostly took a back seat to his acolytes. He led a stirring, arena-wide harmony on a slowed-down "Amazing Grace" and a series of heartfelt singalongs through the end of the concert, including "We Shall Overcome," "Let It Shine," "This Land Is Your Land," and "Goodnight Irene," Seeger's No. 1 Pop Single of 1950.
As an archivist of the American folk songbook, Seeger wrote or popularized most of the songs on the set list, which included many fresh arrangements of traditional blues ballads and spirituals. Roger McGuinn sang "Turn! Turn! Turn!" (a Seeger-penned No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1965, as performed by McGuinn's band The Byrds) with his signature Rickenbacker 12-string and a voice that sounds as clear as it did 45 years ago. Richie Havens performed "Freedom/Motherless Child," the slave spiritual many would remember as the tune used to open Woodstock. Warren Haynes led an electric cover of Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm," a nod to one of the most infamous myths of the folk music movement when Seeger tried to cut Dylan's power when he "went electric" with that song at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.
But the concert wasn't driven entirely by Sixties nostalgia. For better or worse, the performers tethered the songs to current events, including the continuing scourges of pollution and war, and the producers made efforts to address all generations. Oscar the Grouch, for instance, led the environmental jeremiad "Garbage," which sounded as relevant today as when Seeger wrote it in 1969. Pete Seeger's grandson, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, whom many first saw during their historic singalong of "This Land Is Your Land" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before the inauguration of President Obama, led the rousing call to disarm "Bring 'Em Home" with Tyler Ramsey and Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses, guitarist Warren Haynes, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band Horns Section. Joan Baez delivered one of the most wrenching performances of the night, the folk spiritual "Jacob's Ladder," in an unvarnished arrangement that daringly put on display some of her voice's time-worn nuances. It was one of the most riveting moments of the night and true to the essence of Ms. Baez.
The actor Tim Robbins, who served as emcee through numerous segues, praised Mr. Seeger for his relentless optimism, and noted envelope-pushing television producer Norman Lear read President Obama's birthday wishes to Mr. Seeger. Bruce Springsteen celebrated the man as the "stealth dagger through our illusions about ourselves," and received the loudest cheers when he said to old Pete: "You outlived the bastards!"
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