In Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, James Mangold uses Dylan's mentors Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and Johnny Cash to signpost ...

Wilkes-Barre-based folk musician and songwriter Don Shappelle can recall an early, formative moment in his musical journey.

Even though A Complete Unknown glosses over Pete Seeger's trial, the true story of the FBI investigation and Congress hearing ...

Bob Dylan has always had a fraught relationship with the world of progressive social change. He wrote some of the most ...

I must heartily disagree with my friend Amy Worden’s recent column on Pete Seeger’s depiction in the Bob Dylan film, “A ...

The release of the Native American activist, who was convicted in the 1975 killing of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge ...

Over the course of nearly 75 years, the singer, songwriter and activist Pete Seeger used his pen and his voice to champion many causes: civil rights, farmworker and labor rights, and the environment.

Film director James Mangold also tells  Esther McCarthy why he focused on that crucial early period in Dylan's career ...

Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself. It wasn't just that he contributed his tenor (and banjo picking) to two seminal folk groups — the Almanac Singers (with Woody Guthrie) and The Weavers ...

Edward Norton as Pete Seeger in "A Complete Unknown." (Searchlight Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection) ...

It took a while for the Popular Front’s strategy to get results in popular music—and Pete Seeger was the catalyst.” Seeger joined the Communist Party in 1942 and, in time, learned to make ...