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 wanting to play. So he got ahold of Seeger’s seminal book How to Play the Five-String Banjo and decided to contact the man himself.  “I wrote a letter to ‘Pete Seeger, Beacon, New York’—it was like writing to Santa Claus at the North Pole,” Trischka recalls. “And I said something to the effect that ‘You’re the best banjo player in … Continue reading Letters from Pete: How Pete Seeger mentored and inspired generations of musicians