Dear Friends and readers,
I just watched a 90 minute American Masters program about the life and singing of Pete Seeger, an extraordinary hero. If only more people were as brave and good as he was, what a better world this would be. I put this link here in the hope others will watch it too:
One of Seeger’s choices to pay attention to: he refused to do a commercial selling cigarettes with the Weavers. The other three were willing in order to be paid the big sum. He saw correctly this was agreeing to sell cancer, and would change the meaning of their folk group ever after. A small but important gesture. However, not powerful beyond himself since so many would sell themselves. The program is well worth watching for understanding the success of the political hounding of this man and how what could have been a progresive politically galvanizing change in the US through folk music was thwarted: Seeger was centrally responsible for the folk revival in the 1960s, but it could in the 50s (when he was part of the Weavers) and more recently been a force for political change but has not. We see the role the FBI has played in the US since the 1940s.
For more songs, testimony, and life history of Seeger see my blog Pete Seeger has died.
Ellen
Ellen And Jim Have A Blog, Two 
What a shame, I cannot watch it in my region. I get a pop up to that effect when I click on the link. I’d have loved to watch a film about the great man.
Clare
It’s very moving. He is eloquent in the beautifully simple way every one says. I was glad to see his wife at last, his siblings, his grown children and some grandchildren are in the film.
Mmm, sounds excellent. I’ll see if it is on YouTube. I loved his voice and if I am honest his face.