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From the November/December 2019 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY JEFFREY PEPPER RODGERS Pete Seeger wrote this lovely song in the 1960s, and it may have been the last song he sang. He told banjoist Tony Trischka this was his favorite of his own songs. Like so many Seeger tunes, it’s a catchy three-chorder, and the lyrics present in…

Mark Smotroff brushes up on his music history and learns some things…

The Barrington Area Librarys Second Friday Concert series will present a livestream event, "Virtually Pete," at 7 p.m. Friday, June 11, featuring Midwest folk singer and songwriter Mark Dvorak.

A bevy of great American folk musicians takes the stage at Carnegie Hall in "Isnt This a Time!" In September of 2004 at the Toronto Film Festival, the Weavers sang together for possibly the last time. The event had great meaning for those who knew the Weavers and remembered their songs; in progressive circles they supplied the soundtrack for a good part of the 1950s and 1960s -- the Weavers, and those who followed in their footsteps, such as Arlo Guthrie, Peter, Paul and Mary, and Leon Bibb. If...

The TV host Larry King, who has died at the age of 87, applied a celebrity interviewing approach to broadcast journalism in a career lasting well over a half-century, with his Brooklyn Jewish roots as a constant element of his public persona. Born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger, he attended Lafayette High School in the Bath Beach section of Brooklyn, where among his near-contemporaries were other Jewish overachievers, including the baseball pitcher Sandy Koufax, singer Fred Hellerman of the folk group ...

Reply Mark Dvorak (Mark Dvorak ) The Warrenville Public Library, 28W751 Stafford Place, will present Chicago troubadour Mark Dvorak in a live stream/Zoom performance, "A Tribute to Pete Seeger" on Sunday, January 17 at 2:00 pm CST. "Thousands upon thousands of people over the years have taken up the banjo, the guitar and began opening their ears to the world of music because of Pete," said Chicago folk artist Mark Dvorak who will lead the audience through a program of Seegers most enduring son...