| | | Mike Seeger, folk music revival force, dies at 75 |  | Advertisements: |
|  08/11/09 Mike Seeger, 75, a folk musician, music historian and collector of traditional music who was a major influence in the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, died Aug. 7 of multiple myeloma at his home in Lexington, Va. READ FULL SOURCE |
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Other news08/11/09 LEXINGTON, Va., Aug. 11 (UPI) -- Mike Seeger, half-brother of U.S. folk troubadour Pete Seeger and a musician in his own right, died in his Lexington, Va., home of cancer. He was 75.
08/21/09 Mike Seeger was one of the finest musicians specialising in North American vernacular music you could ever hope to see.
04/24/11 Folk, bluegrass and protest singer Hazel Dickens passed away on Friday morning in Washington from pneumonia. She was 75. Dickens grew up impoverished in West Virginia and, at the age of 19, moved with three of her siblings to Baltimore to find work. The family regularly went to festivals of old music and it was there that she met Mike Seeger with which she formed a band along with her two ... Hot themes this week:
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