Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Four Days till Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday

In the lead up to North American celebrations of a man who may be our greatest living folksinger, OVER THE FENCE is looking at songs sung on either side of the Canada-US border and songs that are shared between the two countries.

This is in keeping with Seeger's legacy as a humanitarian and an internationalist as well as an American artist and activist. Seeger has appeared in Canada many times, and has corresponded with some of our own leading songwriters including Joni Mitchell and Stan Rogers.

More on those later. Today we focus on songs that treat national themes but do not necessarily mention their countries by name ...

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