Pete Seeger in Australia (and David on TV)

David is on his way back from Albany, where he made a special appearance on the world premiere of the DVD of Pete Seeger: Live in Australia, 1963. Here David offered insight from his 30+ years of research Pete. The program was broadcast live in Albany, but was also taped for broadcast in other markets. Although it is not being released for rebroadcast, viewers in the Albany area will be able to see it again next weekend (Pete's Birthday weekend.)

Many stations around the country will be broadcasting Pete Seeger Live in Australia 1963 beginning in June 2009. If you'd like to see it broadcast, please check with the programming department at your local public television station.


ARKANSAS-Conway AR
CONNECTICUT PUBLIC TV (CPTV)-Hartford CT
IDAHO -Boise ID
IOWA-Johnston IA
KBYU-Provo UT
KCOS-El Paso TX
KCPT-Kansas City MO
KEDT-Corpus Christi TX
KLVX-Las Vegas NV
KNME-Albuquerque NM
KOZK-Springfield MO
KQED-San Francisco CA
KRMA-Denver CO
KTEH-San Jose CA
KUED-Salt Lake City UT
KVCR-San Bernardino CA
KVIE-Sacramento CA
MARYLAND PTV-Owings Mills MD
MISSISSIPPI-Jackson MS
MONTANA-Bozeman MT
NORTH CAROLINA (UNC TV)-Research Triangle Park NC
NORTH DAKOTA-Fargo ND
NEW HAMPSHIRE (HNPTV)-Durham NH
NEW JERSEY NETWORK (NJN) -Trenton NJ
OKLAHOMA -Oklahoma City OK
SOUTH DAKOTA -Vermillion SD
VERMONT PUBLIC TELEVISION-Colchester VT
WBGU-Bowling Green OH
WBRA-Roanoke VA
WCNY-Syracuse NY
WFSU-Tallahassee FL
WGBH-Boston MA
WGCU-Fort Myers FL
WGVU-Grand Rapids MI
WHRO-Norfolk VA
WILL-Urbana IL
WIPR-San Juan PR
WKNO-Memphis TN
WKYU-Bowling Green KY
WMHT-Troy NY
WMVS-Milwaukee WI
WNED-Buffalo NY
WNPT-Nashville TN
WPBT-North Miami FL
WQED-Pittsburgh PA
WSKG-Binghamton NY
WTVS-Wixom MI
WUFT-Gainesville FL
WVIA-Pittston PA
WVIZ-Cleveland OH
WXXI-Rochester NY

Pete Seeger Series on Danish Radio

A portion of David's radio series, “Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing?” has been translated into Danish and will be appearing on Danish Radio P1 on April 30th. (If you're in Denmark on Thursday, Check your schedule for times.)

He’ll be working on producing a longer version while he's in Denmark this summer.

Television appearance

Following the BEA Festival, I'll be flying to Albany, New York, to appear on an American Public Television showing of the 1963 Pete Seeger concert at Melbourne's Town Hall, "Pete Seeger: Live in Australia 1963," for which I wrote the liner notes.

The program is being broadcast from the studio's of WMHT-TV (channel 17 in Albany) from 7 to 8pm.

The DVD will be released to the general public later this month.

BEA Festival 2009

I'm in Las Vegas today at the Broadcast Educators Association (BEA) Festival 2009. I'm here to receive the BEA Best of Festival King Foundation Award along with the Best Documentary Award for my series, Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing?

This is quite an honor for me! Though it is my third BEA award, it is still a thrill.

Radio Series available from PRX.org

Vermont Public Radio has just picked up the series - right there in Pete Seeger Country!

My three-part radio series, Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing?, which ran nationwide last summer and fall on over 230 PRI stations, is being re-released and is now available to subscribers at www.PRX.org. You can listen to samples there, or at our series site, Peteseeger.org.

Public Radio Exchange (AKA PRX) is an online marketplace for distribution, review, and licensing of public radio programming. This is a great resource for community stations who may not be affiliated with the large public radio networks, but still want quality third-party content. Even if you aren't a radio station, you can subscribe and listen to content online.

CD sets of the series are also being offered to Libraries and Sound Archives.

If you have any questions regarding the series, whether you are a PD, a librarian, sound archivist, or any other interested party, please contact us at wrtgsw@unm.edu.

Book News

My newest book, Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals is off to my editors at Oxford. I'm writing this in collaboration with Molly Beer.

The book is a multi-voiced telling of the story of folk music from the early collectors through to today's online music communities. This book demonstrates the diversity behind the complex evolution of folk music in North America through contextualized oral history interview segments. These interviews tell a narrative in mosaic, layering anecdotes and often-contradictory opinions, to tell not only what happened during the folk revivals, but what it meant to those who were personally and passionately involved. Here the interviews themselves—the voices of musicians, musicologists, writers, activists, and aficionados—open an accessible, primary source introduction to folk music and its history.