March 3, 1965 • 52m
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem from Ireland sing traditional and contemporary Irish songs, including "Butcher's Boy." Seeger ...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
This is a solo performance by Seeger in which he sings some of the songs composed by the famous black folksinger Huddie Ledbetter....Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Seeger and Elizabeth Cotton sing her famous song, "Freight Train" and she demonstrates her left-handed guitar playing. Rosa and Ra...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Ruth Rubin is America's foremost collector of Yiddish folk music and the translator of countless Yiddish songs. Here she performs ...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Jean Ritchie, long-time collector of Cumberland Mountain songs, sings from her extensive repertoire and plays the dulcimer. She al...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Malvina Reynolds, who made up songs almost daily from stories she read in the newspapers, sings her famous "Little Boxes" among ot...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Bessie Jones and the children sing and dance a number of children's play-party songs such as "Thread & Needle" and "Drawing a Buck...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
The group includes Pete Seeger's brother Mike, his brother-in-law John Cohen, and Tracy Schwartz. Among them they play fiddle, gui...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Robert Beers, his wife and daughter, sing in a hauntingly beautiful style including their own "Dumbarton's Drums." Mr. Beers plays...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
South African singer, dancer, songwriter Herbert Manana sings and dances several African songs including "Zula", "Wimoweh" and "Ti...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
German-born Martha Schlamme, accompanied by Abraham Stockman on piano, sings several songs in German including the Brecht/Weill so...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Three legendary figures of country folk music join Seeger with their guitars and fiddle in a long list of traditional songs, inclu...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Scholar Norman Studer talks about the folklore of upstate New York and introduces composer-fiddler-guitarist-quarry worker Grant R...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
With his songs and a display of cartoons and unusual documents, Seeger traces the history of political satire from the early days ...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Italian folk music is the subject of the program, including a film of a group sing in an Italian village. His guests, with two of ...Read more
February 26, 1966 • 52m
This program was taped a short time before Richard Farina's death in an auto accident on April 30, 1966, and contains many of the ...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Seeger and Roscoe trade traditional American songs including "John Hardy" and "Birdie, Pretty Birdie." Jean Redpath sings several ...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
The Clinch Mountain Boys, which includes the well-known Stanley Brothers, sing a number of old-time favorites, including "Worried ...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Ms. Malkine specializes in songs from France, especially those from the Auvergne, a mountainous area in southern France whose song...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
This is a solo performance by Seeger, in which he sings some of the hundreds of songs composed by Woody, including "Philadelphia L...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
A combination of recent and traditional songs, including Pat Sky's well-known "Separation Blues" and Seeger's "Where Have All the ...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Seeger and Chandler trade songs they have written, including Chandler's "Keep on Keeping On," "Beans in My Ears" and "Move on Over...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Donovan, the British recording star, sings a number of songs, accompanied on the sitar by Shawn Phillips, who also demonstrates th...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
A young Russian emigré living in Canada, Alexander Zelkin trades songs from all over the world with Seeger. Sometimes they sing tw...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Descendants of the Acadians who moved to Louisiana when the British made the French leave Nova Scotia, the Cajun Band shares its t...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Seeger and his guest Frank Warner sing songs of the Adirondack Mountains and reminisce about Yankee John and Frank Proffit. Proffi...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Paul Draper, the famous dancer, improvises to music played by his accompanist Coleridge Perkinson and to several songs and rhythms...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
The subject of this show is work songs and lullabies, the latter occasionally being the former, as when sung by a babysitter. We h...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Israeli and Arabic music and poetry are presented in their original language and in translation. Seeger demonstrates how to make a...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Addiss and Crofut, American folksingers who have traveled extensively in the Far East singing under U.S. Department of State auspi...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
The fiddle and banjo are featured instruments in the Greenbriar Boys' repertoire of Blue Grass Music. Seeger joins in with his 12-...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Seeger relates three parables and then trades songs with the popular singer Judy Collins. Together they sing "Daddy You've Been on...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
The Garlands tell about life in Kentucky in the days when the mineworkers' union was struggling to be a force in the mines. Jim Ga...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Sonny Terry, the blind harmonica player, and Brownie McGhee, on guitar, trade songs with Seeger, including "Rock Island Line," "I'...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
In this return visit, Ms. Jones and the children sing and dance with Seeger playing "Skip to My Lou," "Beans in my Ear," "Cumberla...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Paul Cadwell plays several banjo solos including a cakewalk, "Georgia Camp Meeting." Mississippi John Hurt, a singer who had faded...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Playing their steel drums, the Hi-Landers sing songs of their native Trinidad, mostly in the Calypso tradition. Songs include "Mar...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
Composer, singer, guitarist Buffy Sainte-Marie, through song and conversation expresses the American Indians' mixed feelings of lo...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 52m
This episode features Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash as they talk about country music and its ties to the folk traditi...Read more