Tony Trischka grew up with Pete Seeger’s banjo ringing in his house, by way of his parents’ records of the Weavers, the Almanac Singers, and Seeger’s folk songs for children. In 1962, at age 13, Trischka started getting serious about…
On a Friday afternoon this past January, guitarist/folksinger/storyteller/multi instrumentalist/author/Renaissance man John McCutcheon dropped by the AG studios to pass some time before a show that evening at Berkeley’s famed Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse.
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Explore what Pete Seeger, citing Woody Guthrie, called "the genius of simplicity."
Before his death in 2014, AG interviewed Pete Seeger about his life and influence on contemporary folk music for its July 2002 cover story. Below is that interview in full: by Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers Few individuals have enriched our musical…
[Editor’s note] Peggy Seeger is no stranger to folklore. Her father was the famed folklorist Charles Seeger; her mother, Ruth Crawford Seeger, was a trailblazing avant-garde composer. Her folk musician brother, Mike Seeger, co-founded the New Lost City Ramblers, one…
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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.
Ani DiFranco talks about her distinctive guitar style, the burden of being a political icon, and the lessons she learned from Pete Seeger.
Little Folkies, a music program that aims to get young kids engaged with folk music, is the passion project of singer-songwriter Irena Eide.
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Loaning instruments to be used in Hollywood films is only a small part of the Teaneck music store proprietor's business, but it makes for some good stories, as the following interview shows.
More than a prolific solo artist and first-call sideman, Roth is one of the industry's most influential modern guitar instructors.
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