Pete Seeger
Image No. 63-8N-4: Pete Seeger on 12-String 1963 Newport Folk Festival Best known for playing his longneck banjo, Pete loved just as well the ringing tones of his 12-string guitar.
Image No. 63-2N-32: Pete Seeger standing at mike For Pete, the 1963 Newport Folk Festival was a dream come true. Pete was a folk music icon before the sixties began. Singing with Woody Guthrie in the Almanac Singers, and later with the Weavers, Pete had helped to keep music of, by and for the people alive for years, paving the way for the folk revival of the 1960s. By the summer of 1963, the revival was a boom. Pete m.c.'d many of the concerts and workshops at Newport, happy to be introducing so many new and old performers to the enthusiastic crowds.