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The festival was founded in the wake of the Storm King Mountain controversy that focused on the Hudson River from 1963 to 1982. [7] The Festival has also had its origins in the Sloop Clearwater itself. To raise money to build the Sloop, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater founders Pete Seeger and friends held a series of small fundraising concerts [8 ...
The Clearwater and the Clearwater Festival have worked to draw attention to the problem of pollution of the Hudson River.Pollution in the river has included mercury contamination and sewage dumping, [8] [9] but the most discussed issue has been General Electric's contamination of the river with Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) between 1947 and 1977. [10]
The proposed Hudson River Folk Festival would revive a legacy of Pete Seeger, the late folk legend and activist who founded the Clearwater Festival with his wife, Toshi, in the 1970s.
Clearwater was founded in 1966 by folk music legend and activist Pete Seeger and his wife, Toshi, to raise money and awareness for environmental concerns, including protecting the Hudson River.
Consistent with Seeger's longtime advocacy for environmental concerns, the proceeds from the event benefited the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, [100] a non-profit organization founded by Seeger in 1966, to defend and restore the Hudson River. Seeger's 90th birthday was also celebrated at The College of Staten Island on May 4.
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Among the initial attempts to clean up the upper Hudson River was the removal in 1977–78 of 180,000 cubic yards (140,000 m 3) of contaminated river sediments near Fort Edward. [30] In 1984, EPA declared a 200-mile (320 km) stretch of the river, from Hudson Falls to New York City, to be a Superfund site requiring cleanup.
Roberts and Barrand was a musical group formed in 1969 by John Roberts and Tony Barrand while they were graduate students in psychology at Cornell University. [1] Much of their repertoire is traditional English music, although they have also recorded albums of traditional sea shanties.