![]() ![]() Sure enough, every song, he listened for a few seconds and started singing or playing along. I knew that even if he couldn’t remember a song, when he heard it, it could come back. Pete would complain that he could only remember three songs. Last November I invited him again and he said, “OK, I’ll come.” I said it was a regular show and we turned it into a Pete tribute once he was onstage so he couldn’t get away. ![]() Shouldn’t be a problem.” He did it for a few more years and eventually I inherited that date at Carnegie Hall and kept inviting Pete every year. I can’t play like I used to play.” I said, “Look at our audience-they can’t hear like they used to hear. That continued until some time in the ’90s when he said, “I can’t do those big events anymore. It became a Pete and Arlo concert, and for the next 30 years we did two nights, the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving. ![]() Pete took over the annual Weavers reunion concert at Carnegie Hall that had been a mile marker in the blacklist era of the mid-1950s. He was was a friend of my father, not my friend yet, but through the years we bridged that gap. That was my first political action and it was due to Pete. ![]() Obama, Clinton Pay Tribute to Pete Seeger.‘Guantanamera’: Pete Seeger’s Latin Legacy.BB Archives: Pete Seeger, ‘Tall, Slim Sinatra of the Folklore Clan’. ![]()
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