Feb 2, 2023 · In this letter written by Pete Seeger to Bob Dylan in the 1990s, the folk singer explains what actually happened at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

Dec 25, 2024 · T oward the end of A Complete Unknown, the new film chronicling Bob Dylan’s early career, Pete Seeger and the young Dylan have a quiet but tense encounter.

Jan 5, 2025 · ‘A Complete Unknown’ shows folk singers like Seeger and Baez hating Dylan because he went electric. But it's because he didn’t care about their lefty politics.

Dec 26, 2024 · Various accounts of Dylan's early days in New York suggest that he first met Pete Seeger when the veteran folkie caught the newcomer's act in Greenwich Village. A mesmerized...

Jan 3, 2025 · The scene depicts the famous moment at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival when Dylan “went electric,” outraging the acoustic folk music crowd and prompting folk icon Pete …

Pete Seeger was one of the earliest backers of Bob Dylan; he was responsible for urging A&R man John Hammond to produce Dylan's first LP on Columbia, and for inviting him to perform …

Jan 15, 2025 · In 1990, Seeger clarified in a letter to Bob Dylan what he was doing. Seeger wasn’t trying to shut down the band, but trying to improve Dylan’s electric sound that was too loud for …

Feb 21, 2023 · There is a longstanding myth that Pete Seeger wielded a hatchet at Bob Dylan's first electric show. Here's what he wrote in his apology letter to Dylan.

Jan 16, 2025 · When Bob Dylan arrives in New York City in the early 1960s, Pete Seeger, the paterfamilias of folk music, takes the young musician under his wing, getting him stage time at …

Jan 23, 2025 · Pete Seeger (born May 3, 1919, New York City, New York, U.S.—died January 27, 2014, New York City) was a singer-songwriter and activist who sustained the American folk …