Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94

BREAKING NEWSTuesday, January 28, 2014 1:37 AM EST
Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94
Pete Seeger, the singer, folk-song collector and songwriter who spearheaded an American folk revival and spent a long career championing folk music as both a vital heritage and a catalyst for social change, died Monday. He was 94 and lived in Beacon, N.Y.
His death was confirmed by his grandson, Kitama Cahill Jackson, who said he died of natural causes at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

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