Seeger, Mike, 1933-2009
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or records:
Collection
Found in:
American Folklife Center
Caffè Lena collection
Identifier: AFC 2009/035
Abstract
Collection of more than 500 audio recordings, plus digital audio files, video recordings, film, photographs, papers, and ephemera documenting the history of the Caffè Lena coffeehouse, a folk music club and theater in Saratoga Springs, New York, founded by Lena Spencer and Bill Spencer in 1960. The collection includes a large number of live concert performance recordings by folk musicians and singer-songwriters, as well as some theater, storytelling, and poetry performances. The collection...
Dates
1960-2013
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American Folklife Center
John Cohen collection
Identifier: AFC 2011/059
Abstract
Collection of manuscripts, sound recordings, graphic images, and moving images created and collected by John Cohen. The materials document Cohen's parallel careers as a musician (member of the New Lost City Ramblers) and writer during the 1960s American folk music revival, and his celebrated work as a documentary photographer and filmmaker, producer, and artist from the 1950s to the present. Includes interviews made by Cohen with John Hartford, Harry Smith, Roger McGuinn, Pete Seeger, Bob...
Dates
circa 1939-2019
Collection
Found in:
American Folklife Center
John and Ginny Dildine collection
Identifier: AFC 1975/001
Abstract
Collection of sound recordings of Washington, D.C. area folk music radio programs on WASH and WAMU-FM, hosted by John Dildine, with live interviews, and featuring some previously recorded selections. The collection also includes sound recordings of concerts, folk festivals (including selections from the Fox Hollow Folk Festival, 1968 and 1969) and other folk music events in Maryland; Virginia; St. Louis, Missouri; New York state, and other locations. Collection includes performances and...
Dates
1957-1964
Collection
Found in:
American Folklife Center
Indian Neck Folk Festival collection
Identifier: AFC 2016/002
Abstract
Collection of audio recordings of folk festival concerts, workshops, and informal events, produced at various locations in Connecticut and Pennsylvania by the Indian Neck Folk Festival from about 1961-2015. The collection also includes papers, photographs, videocassettes, posters, and digital files.
Dates
1961-2015
Collection
Found in:
American Folklife Center
Izzy Young collection
Identifier: AFC 2015/040
Abstract
Collection of manuscripts, including correspondence, journals, diaries, scrapbooks, clippings, artwork, and ephemera; photographic prints; and audio recordings comprising the archive of Israel (Izzy) Goodman Young, who was proprietor of the Folklore Center, New York, N.Y. (beginning in 1957), and then, beginning in 1973, of the Folklore Centrum, Stockholm, Sweden. The collection documents the late 1950s and 1960s folk music revival, and Izzy Young's contribution to the scene. Includes...
Dates
1942-2015