# Toshi Seeger
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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. In 1966, Seeger and her husband, folk-singer Pete Seeger, co-founded the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, which seeks to protect the Hudson River and surrounding wetlands.
Elizabeth Cotten performs "Freight Train"
Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten (1895-1987) built her musical legacy on a firm foundation of late 19th- and early 20th-century African-American instrumental traditions and fine musicianship. She strung her guitar upside down, the bass notes to the bottom. This meant she would thumb the treble strings whil…
"Freight Train" by Elizabeth "Libba" Cotton
Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten (1895-1987) built her musical legacy on a firm foundation
of late 19th- and early 20th-century African-American instrumental traditions and fine musicianship.
She strung her guitar upside down, the bass notes to the bottom. This meant she would thumb
the treble strings w…
Joe Hickerson
Joe Hickerson, folk singer, folklorist, archivist, and librarian, joins fellow-archivist Jeff Place and host
Sam Litzinger for an animated discussion of folk music collecting, the Library of Congress archives, and the story behind
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? the song he co-wrote with Pet…
Elizabeth Cotton - "Freight Train"
Elizabeth Cotton, filmed in 1957 at the Seeger family home. Courtesy of Pete and Toshi Seeger.
Episode 40: A Complete Unknown, Starring Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan!
How DOES it feel to be a total genius? It’s a burden for our dear friend Bob Dylan. A Complete Unknown is a big hit and is nominated for a billionty-five Academy Awards, so we went to the theaters to experience what might be the most sincere, prestige-y portrait of a ridiculously talented douchebag…
Sandwich Generation Series: A Holistic Guide to Senior Care Conversations
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Nick and Moraya continue their series on the sandwich generation with an insightful conversation featuring Mindy Mozenter from Senior Living Specialists Philadelphia. While the episode provides concrete steps for senior care planning, it goes beyond typical checklists to explo…
Episode 46: "If Music Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws..."
Welcome to Episode 46. We do a deep dive into what happens when governments and authorities ban music, with examples from Trinidad, India, Afghanistan, Russia, and Brazil. Warren Senders interviews three experts: ethnomusicologist Matthew Rahaim (the 1941-1971 ban on the harmonium on India's nati…
NH #638: SPECIAL - Oppose Nuclear? Good News! Downwinder Compensation, No New Nukes in Illinois, Texas RadWaste De-Licensed, Indian Point Radwater Dump Dumped!
SPECIAL - Nuclear Good News!!! RECA Expanded, Illinois Moratorium Retained, Texas Radioactive Waste Non-Storage, Indian Point Radwater Dump Dumped!
This Week's Special Features:
It's not often that those who oppose nuclear get good news, but in recent weeks there's been a deluge of positive lega…
Rainbow Quest
In this episode, we investigate the history and the making of Pete and Toshi Seeger’s television program, Rainbow Quest. We discuss Pete’s reasons and visions for creating this television program, which was produced from late 1965 through spring 1966. As this is an often under-researched topic in t…
Bill Hudson - Wrong Direction, Right Path
Singer-songwriter Bill Hudson came to the 4½ Inch STUDio to talk about the Feel Good Tour, a grassroots effort that has spent roughly twenty years putting musical instruments into the hands of kids, schools, families, and communities that need them.
That story begins with a trip to Louisiana after …
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