The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #73260   Message #1275531
Posted By: Peter T.
19-Sep-04 - 10:07 AM
Thread Name: Pete Seeger's last concert
Subject: RE: Pete Seeger's last concert
Still buzzing! I forgot to mention a few things, not the least of which was Ronnie telling all the Americans in the audience that they had a little more than a month before they too could change the world!!
There was a particularly nice moment in the film when Harold talks about how Pete Seeger represented for many people around the world the real America -- love of liberty, equality, hope for the downtrodden of the world. Got a big round of applause.

Ronnie also mentioned a 94 year old woman running for Congress (is that right?) in New Hampshire!

I figure the Weavers should go on tour with the movie. I mean, just because the movement has used them up a million times, and they have earned their rest a million times, why not one more squeeze from the selfish so and sos like me, their fans? Their open heartedness is such a difference from the truly dinosauric, crabbed, cramped, hopeless, selfish dark grimness of which there is much evidence abroad (and some in the thread above)

yours,

Peter T.