Pete Seeger Tribute and Birthday Celebration

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Friday, May 3rd, 2013
6:30 PM to 10:30 PM

Celebrating the life and music of Pete Seeger
Join Flying Accusations and special musical guests in a celebration of Pete Seeger.
Special guests Mohr Masala and Andrew Schmidt
In addition to being America�s best-loved folksinger and an untiring environmentalist, Pete Seeger is a national treasure. He has been at the forefront of the labor movement, the struggle for Civil Rights, the peace and anti-war movements, and the fight for a clean world. He has been a beacon for hope for millions of people all over the world. Once blacklisted from national television for being unafraid to voice his opinions, he was given the nation�s highest artistic honors at the Kennedy Center in December 1994. In January 1996 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Although he left Harvard during his second year, in the spring of 1996 he was awarded the Harvard Arts Medal, presented annually to a Harvard graduate who has made an important contribution to the arts. He won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album of 1996 in February 1997 for his Living Music recording �Pete.�

At the end of April 1999, he traveled to Cuba to accept the Felix Varela Medal, that nation�s highest honor for �his humanistic and artistic work in defense of the environment and against racism.� In April 2000, he was named one of America�s Living Legends by the Library of Congress. The recognition of Pete Seeger�s invaluable contributions to American culture and history continue in the twenty-first century. He won a Grammy Award in 2008 for his Appleseed Recording, �Pete Seeger:
At 89,� and again in 2011 for his �Tomorrow�s Children� album. Pete Seeger was chosen to sing at the January 2008 inauguration of President Barack Obama, where he sang all of the verses to Woody Guthrie�s iconic �This Land is Your Land.� He celebrated his 90th birthday on May 3, 2009 with family and friends at a sold-out concert in New York�s Madison Square Garden.

DOB May 3, 1919