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Pete Seeger marks his 90th year with a concert bash

By Frazier Moore The Associated Press

Published: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:26 PM CDT

NEW YORK (AP) - Pete Seeger has never paid attention to demographics or audience segments. His message has always been about inconclusiveness as a performer.

And he's a performer in many senses of the word.

“A musician, singer, songwriter, folklorist, labor activist, environmentalist, peace advocate,” listed Tim Robbins at the start of an all-star gathering at Madison Square Garden last May to celebrate Seeger's 90th birthday.

This celebration has been captured as a “Great Performances” special, and it's full of passion and ideals, nostalgia for past gains and hope for the future. (It premieres this week, airing individually on PBS stations over the next few weeks; check local listings for date and time.)

Joining Seeger are more than 40 artists including Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Kris Kristofferson, Richie Havens, Roger McGuinn, Ani DiFranco, Taj Mahal, Steve Earle, Tom Morello and Dave Matthews.

Collectively, they sing of a joyous activism and love of country. At the same time, they help shed a little light (for those of us who need it) on Seeger's remarkable impact.

The gathered talent invites the audience to join in singing “We Shall Overcome,” while reminding us that it was Seeger who helped convey it from a labor song to a signal civil rights anthem.

“Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season),” a signature hit for the Byrds 40 years ago, was written by Seeger (in collaboration with the Bible), and former Byrds member McGuinn is on hand to perform it as if it had been recorded yesterday.

Mellencamp sings “If I Had a Hammer (the Hammer Song),” a peace song so immersed in the culture it's hard to believe Seeger could have written it at the dawn of the militaristic 1950s Red Scare.

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