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The Life and Songs of Folk Music Icon Pete Seeger
May 4, 2019 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT
Musicians Richie Stearns and Rosie Newton join Jesse Jarnow, author of Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the American Soul, in a celebration of Pete Seeger’s 100th birthday. Jesse Jarnow is the author of Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America and Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock. His writing on music, technology, and culture has appeared via Pitchfork, Wired.com, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and elsewhere, and he is a contributing editor at Relix. He lives in Brooklyn, New York; hosts The Frow Show on the independent Jersey City radio station WFMU; and tweets via @bourgwick.
Check out the official video for “Waterbound” by Richie & Rosie below, and find more information about them at: https://richieandrosie.com/the-latest
Co-sponsored by The Egg Performing Arts Center.
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