Life Well Lived

From the NYT : "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 on Monday in Manhattan. He was 94." 
( please read the rest )

So much more on YOUTUBE - just go look

Sadly and embarrassingly late to make him a personal hero, only after seeing  PBS' American Masters do his life story did I understand he was much more than the kindly old , somewhat wacky grandfather type. A true Zelig to the American progressive movement, was there for it all. 

Then just two days ago on Netflix I found this  really good film on the whole " folk revival " movement that poured out of NYC's Greenwich Village in the late 50's / early 60's . Find it if you can: