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  Mike Seeger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
It is no wonder that Mike Seeger has maintained a lifelong fascination with the roots of American music: indeed, it has been in his blood from the day he was born.
At a very early age, Mike began to absorb an extraordinary range of songs and styles.
As Seeger him self recalled it, "I was raised on field recordings of Southern rural music and my parents' singing of these songs to me and their friends.
users2.ev1.net /~smyth/linernotes/personel/SeegerMike.htm   (392 words)

  
 Charles Seeger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Seeger (Mexico City, Mexico, 1886 - 1979) was musicologist, composer, and teacher.
One of their sons is Pete Seeger, the folk singer.
His second wife was the composer and musician Ruth Seeger (née Ruth Porter Crawford; by her, he had two children who also achieved musical renown, Peggy Seeger and Mike Seeger.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Seeger   (272 words)

  
 Mike Seeger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Mike Seeger was destined to become a musician.
The son of musicologists Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger, he is also the brother of two of Americaís greatest folk singers, Pete and Peggy Seeger.
Mike started producing records at the age of 23 and has been a member of the "New Lost City Ramblers" since its inception over 40 years ago.
www.dawgnet.com /acd_html/artists/seeger.html   (135 words)

  
 OakStoneClassics.co.uk - Blog - Folk - Accoustic Roots - Pete Seeger
Seeger started a solo career in 1958 (see 1958 in music), and is known for songs such as "If I Had a Hammer" (co-written with Lee Hays), "Turn, Turn, Turn" (adapted from Ecclesiastes), and "We Shall Overcome" (based on a spiritual).
Seeger is involved in the environmental organization Clearwater, which he founded in 1966.
Seeger performed the song on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour after some arguments with CBS about whether the song's lyrics were objectionable.
www.oakstoneclassics.co.uk /Blog/tabid/671/EntryID/212/Default.aspx   (1421 words)

  
 Folksinger Mike Seeger to visit UK
Legendary folksinger Mike Seeger will be in residence at the University of Kentucky the first week of March.
Mike Seeger, brother of folk icon Pete Seeger, has devoted his life to singing, playing and documenting southern traditional mountain music.
Mike plays a variety of traditional styles on the banjo, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, trump, harmonica, quills, lap dulcimer, autoharp and other instruments.
www.uky.edu /PR/UK_News/Feb_28_2005/mike_seeger.htm   (240 words)

  
 Mike Seeger - Music Downloads - Online
Mike's half-brother, Pete Seeger, performed in both the Almanac Singers and the Weavers, while his sister Peggy Seeger was highly regarded in traditional music circles.
He recorded Mike Seeger for Vanguard in 1964, and Tipple, Loom and Rail: Songs of the Industrialization of the South for Folkways in 1965.
Seeger continues to involve himself in a multitude of projects.
musicstore.connect.com /artist/890/745/9/8907459.html   (568 words)

  
 Mike Seeger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Mike Seeger has devoted his life to singing and playing Music from True Vine -- the home music made by American southerners before the media age.
Mike's music conveys all the depth of feeling, the sheer energy and the infinite variety and texture of true rural music.
In 1995 Mike received the Rex Foundation's Ralph J. Gleason Lifetime Achievement Award, established by the Grateful Dead to recognize "those who exemplify the qualities of talent, vision, innovation that Ralph so tirelessly supported." In the word of the award citation, Mike Seeger "...remains one of our great musical and cultural resources.
www.folkloreproductions.com /html/seebio.html   (480 words)

  
 Mike Seeger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Mike is the brother of five string banjo pioneer Pete Seeger.
Mike is a proponent of ALL old time banjo styles and can play them all.
Mike shown with his custom 3/4 inch wide, elk skin lined Dogwood Design strap on a 1905 Fairbanks Whyte Laydie No. 7.
www.dogwooddesigns.com /mike_seeger.htm   (115 words)

  
 Mike Seeger: Dirty Linen #69   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Musician-folklorist Mike Seeger is central to any discussion of the popular revival of traditional North American music.
In a career spanning nearly four decades, Seeger has been tireless in his pursuit of traditional music, whether as a performer, advocate of other performers such as Elizabeth Cotten and the Dickens Family, or as a field recordist and music collector.
Seeger was born in 1933, the son of Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger.
www.dirtynelson.com /linen/feature/69seeger.html   (339 words)

  
 East Coast Piedmont Blues - Leslie Riddle
It was there that Mike Seeger hunted Riddle down to record him in 1963.
Seeger and the New Lost City Ramblers played a concert with Maybelle Carter, who played several songs she had learned from Lesley Riddle.
Seeger asked her who she had learned the songs from, and upon finding out, Seeger searched Riddle down and persuaded him to continue playing.
facstaff.unca.edu /sinclair/piedmontblues/riddle.html   (603 words)

  
 Mike Seeger Collection Inventory (#20009)
His father, Charles Seeger, was a musicologist, and his mother, Ruth Crawford Seeger, a composer, educator, and arranger of folk songs.
Mike Seeger's documentation for his tape recordings, including tape logs with interview logs and song and artist listings.
Seeger made copies of these recordings for the Library of Congress and the Country Music Foundation, and many of his tape logs refer to the tapes in terms of "MS Dub #s." Copies of these tape logs are filed separately in the SFC Field Notes vertical files.
www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/htm/20009.html   (3113 words)

  
 Wheaton College: Arts: The music of Mike Seeger: a living tradition
Not many people know what a quill, a trump or a lap dulcimer is, but Mike Seeger does.
In his late teens, Mike Seeger began studying with the likes of Elizabeth Cotton, guitarist Maybelle Carter, banjoists Dock Boggs and Cousin Emmy, and autoharpist Kilby Snow.
Seeger is devoted to preserving traditional music and has produced a series of documentaries in an effort to enlighten the public about this southern art.
www.wheatonma.edu /arts/vap/artists/seeger.html   (525 words)

  
 Peggy Seeger - Rants & Raves - Concert Reviews
Welcoming the audience, Mike Harding set the scene by pointing out how, with the famous Radio Ballards of the 1950s, Seeger and her late partner Ewan MacColl gave expression to the experiences of working-class people in song.
Towards the end of the concert, Peggy Seeger sang her most famous feminist song “I'm Gonna Be An Engineer” and all the artists gathered on stage for a rendition of “Sing About These Hard Times,” a song of hope for working people.
No, more than just a folk club; it was as if she genuinely regarded every one of us as an old and treasured friend, personally invited into her home to share her birthday celebrations with her and her friends and family.
www.pegseeger.com /html/70thbirthdayconcertreviews.html   (1288 words)

  
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Mike Seeger has spent the better part of 50 years unearthing and performing traditional American music.
A former trustee of the Newport Folk Festival--as well as the son of renowned musicologist Charles and half brother to folk music icon Pete, Seeger is one of the nation`s leaders in the performance and history of the banjo.
Musically, Seeger is plowing well-worn territory here, covering beyond-chestnuts like "Jim Crack Corn," "Flop Eared Mule," and "Wabash Blues." But SOUTHERN BANJO SONGS will appeal to any serious banjo player or folk music listener.
www.overstock.com /sm-mike-seeger-southern-banjo-songs--pg-proframe_pi-471977_ti-82125.html   (436 words)

  
 Bates College | 05-01-96 MIKE SEEGER TO PERFORM
LEWISTON, Maine -- Mike Seeger, guardian of the traditions of old-time country music and acclaimed bluegrass banjo player, will appear in concert at Bates College on (Thursday) May 9 at 8 p.m.
Seeger, a founding member of the famed New Lost City Ramblers, was a key figure in the folk-music revival of the 1950s and 1960s.
Seeger also is a noted researcher and historian of American music.
www.bates.edu /x2634.xml   (305 words)

  
 Homespun Tapes - Mike Seeger
Mike Seeger has devoted his life to singing, playing and documenting southern traditional mountain music.
A three-volume instructional series in which Mike Seeger presents an overview of nineteenth and twentieth century banjo styles.
Mike Seeger teaches dominant old-time picking techniques—clawhammer, two- finger, three-finger, up-picking and others—in several tunings and styles.
www.homespuntapes.com /artists/artistpage.asp?artID=456   (331 words)

  
 Mike Seeger News
By Ron Wynn, rwynn@nashvillecitypaper.com June 09, 2006 Ralph Stanley's latest release A Distant Land to Roam: Ralph Stanley Sings Songs of the Carter Family is a simple, beautiful tribute to country's founding...
Seeger performed Southern folk songs with his re-creations of ancient banjos and his distinct, plaintive singing.
Folk music legend Mike Seeger and the late Grand Ole Opry performer Deford Bailey have been chosen as this year's Uncle Dave Macon Days Heritage Award Winners.
www.topix.net /who/mike-seeger   (229 words)

  
 eBay - mike seeger, String, Musical Instruments items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Mike Seeger - Second Annual Farewell Reunion LP MINT
Mike Seeger - Close To Home: Old Time Music F...
MIKE SEEGER SECOND ANNUAL FAREWELL REUNION WHITE PROMO
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 Mike Seeger Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Maybelle Carter's dynamic "thumb lead" style in particular is essential knowledge for anyone interested in playing traditional American folk or country guitar.
In this lesson, Mike Seeger teaches how to get the famous Carter Family guitar sound and incorporate it...
In his easy and enjoyable introduction to old-time mandolin playing, Mike Seeger starts off with the basics, such as how to hold the pick and the proper way to fret the notes.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Mike_Seeger   (233 words)

  
 Mike Seeger Concert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Traditional player-singer Mike Seeger will appear in concert on Saturday, 21 August 2004, at the country church of the Good Shepherd outside the village of Blue Grass, Virginia.
Tickets may be reserved by telephone and, because of limited space, are not expected to be available at the door.
Mike Seeger has devoted his life to singing and playing the traditional mountain music
www.highland-arts.org /seeger.html   (360 words)

  
 MIKE SEEGER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
THE REX FOUNDATION congratulates Musician, Teacher and Folklorist MIKE SEEGER Recipient of the 1995 Ralph J. Gleason Award
The Rex Foundation is proud to honor him as the newest recipient of the Ralph J. Gleason Award for outstanding contributions to the arts.
The Rex Foundation hopes to keep his legacy alive by presenting the award bearing his name to those who exemplify the qualities of talent, vision and innovation that Ralph so tirelessly supported.
www.dead.net /almanac/vol2_2/Seegerp2.html   (537 words)

  
 Mike Seeger - Recordings, Videos, Books
Mike Seeger with the New Lost City Ramblers
Argo DA 80 Mike and Peggy Seeger (1966)*
Seeger and members of their families (1989) 2 CD set
mikeseeger.info /html/discs.html   (869 words)

  
 Folksinger Mike Seeger Visits UK
Folksinger Mike Seeger Visits UK Folksinger Mike Seeger Visits UK Contact: Whitney Hale
While visiting UK, Seeger also will give a performance for a live taping of the Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour at the Kentucky Theater on Feb. 28.
On campus, he will present a free concert in the Center Theater of the Student Center at 8 p.m.
www.uky.edu /PR/News/Archives/2005/Feb2005/050228_mike_seeger.htm   (243 words)

  
 Kennedy Center: Millennium Stage Artist Details for Mike Seeger
Kennedy Center: Millennium Stage Artist Details for Mike Seeger
Mike Seeger has devoted his life to singing and playing Music from True Vine—the home music made by American southerners before the media age.
Founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, Mike Seeger plays music from True Vine -- the home music made by American southerners before the media age.
www.kennedy-center.org /programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=SEEGERMIKE   (291 words)

  
 Official Ticketmaster site. Mike Seeger tickets, dates
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 Mike Seeger: Fret n' Fiddle: Vestapol Video 13008
Mike Seeger: Fret n' Fiddle: Vestapol Video 13008
Mike Seeger has learned these songs and a variety of traditional styles from the original singers and musicians.
In this video he introduces us to the instruments and themes of this vital form of music.
guitarvideos.com /vesta/13008.htm   (222 words)

  
 Mike Seeger MP3 Downloads - Mike Seeger Music Downloads - Mike Seeger Music Videos
Mike Seeger MP3 Downloads - Mike Seeger Music Downloads - Mike Seeger Music Videos
Born into one of the first families of American folk music, it was probably inevitable that Mike Seeger would become a musician and folklorist.
In 1962, when Tracy Schwarz replaced Paley in the Ramblers, Seeger became involved in a number of solo projects.
www.mp3.com /mike-seeger/artists/1785/biography.html   (628 words)

  
 Peggy Seeger - Ruth Crawford Seeger : Index
Peggy Seeger - Ruth Crawford Seeger : Index
Ruth Crawford Seeger - Biography in 600 words by David Lewis
Ruth Crawford Seeger - Archive at the Library of Congress
www.pegseeger.com /html/rcsindex.html   (137 words)

  
 Rounder Records - Mike Seeger - 3rd Annual Farewell Reunion - Album Detail
Rounder Records - Mike Seeger - 3rd Annual Farewell Reunion - Album Detail
Mike Seeger sings and plays 23 songs and tunes with 23 different soloists and groups, musicians he's been making music with over the years.
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www.rounder.com /index.php?id=album.php&catalog_id=5941   (88 words)

  
 Mike Seeger - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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Mike's half-brother, Pete Seeger, performed in both the Almanac Singers and the..
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 Mike Seeger Traditional Banjo Video Series
June 2001, Volumn 1 and 2 released, volumn 3 coming early in 2002.
Like the CD, this video series will be a survey of traditional Southern banjo techniques, styles, instrumentals and songs, played solo by Mike on a variety of 23 mostly vintage banjos.
Styles range from 19th-century African-American Mississippi style to a song played in the style evolved in the 1940's by North Carolinian Earl Scruggs.
www.institutefortraditionalstudies.org /its_seeger.html   (117 words)

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