Pete Seeger wins top award for album
(Pete's album was one of two albums to get the top Classic Award -- see the 3rd link.)
"Each time the Parents' Choice awards are given, some media are recognized as Classic
Award winners, products that exceed the Foundation's tough evaluation criteria and continue
to be fresh year after year."


http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000523/md-parents-choice
Parents' Choice Announces Spring 2000 Awards

BALTIMORE, May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Parents' Choice Foundation, the nation's oldest and
most respected authority on children's media, today announced the Spring 2000 Parents'
Choice Award winners.
...

http://www.parents-choice.org/detail.cfm?accessID=685
Legendary folk singer Pete Seeger entertained children in the 1950’s and ‘60s
with these traditional folk and activity songs and his warm affability, light,
melodic voice and sprightly banjo seem as fresh today as then. Offering a sense
of America’s music-making, barn-dancing pioneer past, this playful anthology includes such
evergreen classics as "Jim Crack Corn," "Frog Went A-Courting,"
"Skip to My Lou," "Shoo Fly," and "Jim Along Josie."

http://www.parents-choice.org/router.cfm?productcategory=Audio
American Folk, Game, and Activity Songs for Children
Recorded by Pete Seeger
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings



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http://phc.mpr.org/performances/20000520/index.shtml
Audio of the May 20 PHC radio show with guest Ramblin' Jack.

http://www.sonicnet.com/news/archive/story.jhtml;$sessionid$TBH4IUIAAAQEQCQBIAQCFEQ?id=971675
Blues/Folk Beat: Pete Seeger,
Arlo Guthrie, Bert Jansch, Willie
Nelson ...
Seeger's 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' named
song of the century by the BBC.

The upcoming Appleseed album The Songs of Pete Seeger Volume II,
besides featuring Joan Baez and Jackson Browne on a duet of
"Guantanamera," also will feature Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie singing
"66 Highway Blues," a song Seeger wrote with Arlo's dad, Woody
Guthrie, which has never been recorded. Other artists on the album
include Billy Bragg, Tom Paxton and Eric Anderson. ...

Seeger's "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" — as
performed by Tommy Sands and Vedran Smailovic
on the Appleseed albums The Songs of Pete Seeger
and From Belfast to Bosnia — has been chosen by
the British Broadcasting Service as the most
important song of the century — presumably the 20th
century. ...

Folksinger Ramblin' Jack Elliott will serenade the audience before the
screening of his daughter's documentary "The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
Elliott," June 10 at the Nashville Independent Film Festival. ...

from rolling stone daily news:
The soundtrack to the upcoming RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT documentary "The Ballad of Rambling
Jack" will feature previously unreleased duets with BOB DYLAN, JOHNNY CASH and WOODY
GUTHRIE. Vanguard Records will release the soundtrack on Aug. 15

"Saving the Hudson, one song at a time" http://www.bergen.com/previews/clear16200006161.htm

One hour with Pete Seeger recorded in 1996: http://www12.real.com/contentp/npr/ne6o03.html
Tune in to Talk of the Nation for a conversation with singer, songwriter, folklorist and activist Pete Seeger. Since the 1940s when he helped form the Almanac Singers to the present day, he's been an institution in American folk music.

"The ballad of Ramblin’ Jack Elliott"
By David Guilbault
MSNBC
SEATTLE, June 16 — All my life, as a bona fide ’60s
folkie, I heard about Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, but I
never actually heard the legendary folksinger and
roustabout. I knew he rambled with Woody
Guthrie and Jack Keroauc and inspired the likes of
Bob Dylan and a whole generation of Greenwich
Village troubadours. Now, thanks to a new
documentary on his life, some recent CDs and an
afternoon being regaled by the man, I know why
listeners are drawn to the storyteller and his tales.
...
http://www.msnbc.com/news/421846.asp?cp1=1

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good audio clips here including several of Pete Seeger:
http://www.millsaps.edu/~mcelvrs/his2110.htm

just a reminder that Pete Seeger will be in DC for this year's Folklife Festival, he will participate in the evening events on July 2; also, Woody Guthrie's childrens songs will be celebrated on July 3:
http://web2.si.edu/folklife/festival2000info.htm#July 2 5:30 - 9:00 p.m.
http://web2.si.edu/folklife/festival2000info.htm

the DALAI LAMA will also be here on July 2 for the Tibetan culture part of the festival:
http://yp.washingtonpost.com/E/E/WASDC/0001/83/33/
http://www.tibetanculture.org/visit.htm

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Review of Woody album: WOODY ALBUM REVIEW

Cheryl: "Dust Bowl Ballads" has always been my favorite of Woodys. I sure would like to hear it on C.D. and read the new linear notes! That will be a future quest for me.lol

http://www.sonicnet.com/news/story.jhtml;$sessionid$JOFU4BYAAAJJGCQBIAOCFEQ?genreNameForDisplay=Blues%2FFolk&genreDirectoryName=blues&id=1121958

Joel Rafael Builds On
Woody Guthrie Tradition

Singer/songwriter highlights songs
from his latest album plus material
from late folk legend.

Correspondent Mikel Toombs reports:

SAN DIEGO — When Joel Rafael and his band
play the Woody Guthrie Free Folk Festival this
weekend in Woody Guthrie's hometown of
Okemah, Okla., they will precede a performance
by some more familiar faces, including the late
folk singer's heir Arlo Guthrie and Woody's fellow
traveler Pete Seeger.

But the Joel Rafael Band are no strangers to
Okemah, having played at both previous Free Folk
Festivals — they headlined the Saturday show
last year.
...

http://www.livedaily.com:80/news/1426.html
http://www.smh.com.au:80/news/0007/08/text/spectrum8.html

Dust Bowl Ballads remastered and reissued on CD.
See the second headline: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/arts/culture-notes.html

Bruderhof youth festival readied
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20000721crusade7.asp
Children's Crusade 2000 will take a different tack, bringing such well-known
figures as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, author Jonathan Kozol, actor Ossie Davis,
singer PETE SEEGER, and song and dance troupes from several countries to New
Meadow Run. Clement said 39 nations would be represented.