Mike Seeger

Mike Seeger (b. August 15, 1933 in New York, New York) is an American folk musician and folklorist. August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ...

He was exposed to traditional music through his mother and father, who worked with musicologists John and Alan Lomax. His famous musical family includes half-brother Pete Seeger and sister Peggy Seeger. For the album by Prince, see Musicology (album). ... John Avery Lomax (September 23, 1867 - January 26, 1948) was a pioneering musicologist and folklorist. ... Lomax playing guitar, sometime between 1938 and 1950 Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American folklorist and musicologist specializing in the music of the United States and that of other nations which influenced American music. ... Pete Seeger, 1944 Peter Seeger (born May 3, 1919 in New York City), almost always known as Pete Seeger, is a folk singer, political activist and major contributor to folk and protest music in 1950s and 1960s. ... Peggy Seeger (New York City, New York, June 17, 1935 -) is an American folk singer who also achieved renown in Britain, where she lived for more than 30 years as the wife of songwriter Ewan MacColl. ...

He is an accomplished musician, playing autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, mouth harp, mandolin, and dobro. When Mike Seeger was 25, he formed the New Lost City Ramblers. Autoharp The autoharp is a zither_like musical string instrument having a series of chord bars attached to dampers which, when depressed, mute all the strings other than those that form the desired chord. ... The banjo is a string instrument, derived from the banjar, a stringed instrument of Caribbean origins, sometimes called the gourd banjo. The banjar, in turn was based on the African akonting. Some etymologists derive it from a dialectal pronunciation of bandore, though recent research suggests that it may come from... The violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a fifth apart. ... Dulcimer is the name given to two types of stringed musical instrument: The Appalachian dulcimer, a three-course, fretted, plucked instrument which is also referred to as a mountain dulcimer or just a dulcimer, and The Hammered dulcimer, which is a hammer-struck, trapezoid-shaped zither The instruments are quite... A harmonica is a free reed musical wind instrument (also known, among other things, as a mouth organ, french harp, simply harp, or Mississippi saxophone), having multiple, variably-tuned brass or bronze reeds, each secured at one end over an airway slot of like dimension into which it can freely... Carved and round backed mandolins (front) A mandolin is a stringed musical instrument. ... Dobro is a trade name, originally used by the Dopyera brothers and now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation. ... New Lost City Ramblers The New Lost City Ramblers is a contemporary old-time string band that formed in New York City in 1958 during the Folk Revival. ...

Discography

• Solo: Old Time Music (Rounder) (1962)
• Tipple, Loom & Rail (Smithsonian Folkways) (1965)
• Strange Creek Singers (Arhoolie) (1968)
• American Folk Songs for Children (Rounder) (1977)
• Fresh Oldtime String Band (Rounder) (1988)
• American Folk Songs for Christmas (Rounder) (1989)
• Animal Folk Songs for Children (Rounder) (1992)
• Third Annual Farewell Reunion (Rounder) (1994)
• Way Down in North Carolina (Rounder) (1996)
• Southern Banjo Sounds (Smithsonian Folkways) (1998)
• True Vine (Smithsonian Folkways) (2003)

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External Links

[Official site (http://mikeseeger.info)]