SEEGER, PETE
(*1919)
SEEGER, PETE (b. New York City, May 3, 1919) Son of musicologist Charles Seeger and half brother of country-folk musicians MIKE SEEGER and Peggy Seeger, Pete Seeger has done more to popularize the FIVE-STRING BANJO than perhaps any other performer except Earl Scruggs (of FLATT AND SCRUGGS ). He evolved a simplified version of clawhammer-style banjo playing (the traditional banjo strum) that gave just about all folk revivalists of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s their first exposure to the…