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Toshi Seeger (born Toshi Aline Ohta; July 1, 1922 – July 9, 2013) was an American filmmaker, producer and environmental activist.A filmmaker who specialized in the subject of folk music, Toshi's credits include the 1966 film Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison and the Emmy Award-winning documentary Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, released through PBS in 2007. [1]
Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison is a 1966 American film directed by Toshi Seeger, a specialist in films focusing on folk music. [1] [2] The film explores inmates in the U.S. state of Texas as they chop down trees while singing songs derived from those used by African American slaves, such as field hollers.
Pete Seeger at the 2007 Clearwater Festival The festival was founded in 1966 by Toshi Seeger and her husband, folk singer Pete Seeger , who regularly performed at it.
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer-songwriter, musician and social activist. He was a fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, and had a string of hit records in the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene," which topped the charts for 14 weeks in 1950.
The committee, including Seeger, attempts to cut the sound but is thwarted by Grossman and Seeger's wife Toshi. Dylan initially refuses a request from Seeger and the festival organizers to perform a folk song as an encore, but relents when Cash offers him his acoustic guitar.
Toshi Seeger (1922–2013), filmmaker and environmental activist; Mika Seeger [2] American ceramic artist; Tao Rodríguez-Seeger (b. 1972), a contemporary American folk musician; Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953), a modernist composer and an American folk music specialist; Mike Seeger (1933–2009), American folk musician and folklorist
In 1966, Pete Seeger and his wife Toshi Seeger founded the organization and within three years had the sloop Clearwater built to advocate for cleaning up the Hudson River. The founding was influenced by community opposition to a proposed power plant at Storm King Mountain . [ 3 ]
Toshi Reagon (born January 27, 1964) is an American musician of folk, ... Reagon is the goddaughter of folk singer Pete Seeger and is named after his wife, ...