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Thread #99942   Message #2000178
Posted By: Bill D
18-Mar-07 - 10:48 AM
Thread Name: Seeger Tribute - Washington, DC - 2007-(online!)
Subject: RE: Seeger Tribute - Washington, DC
Well, it was wonderful! I'm not sure I'm recovered enough to cover it all yet, but nearly 700 lucky folks crowded into a church and saw & heard history. Pete was amazing....why, you'd never guess he was ...what? 88?...

I'll think about some details and add more later, but I'd have paid admission just to hear Pete do "Turn, Turn, Turn" and work an already singing audience totally into the song!

Peggy did everything from old mountain ballads to contemporary love songs she had written...and Mike was as amazing as always on many instruments...and all three of them kept the theme of 'peace' ..and the need to confront why we don't have it ... constantly visible.




....and....finally...after 47 years, I got to shake Pete's hand and exchange a few words with him. I asked him about a line I remembered from a tongue-twister patter when I first saw him 47 years ago...and he immediately smiled and quoted the whole thing!

"One big fat hen....two ducks............seven sailing ships sailing from Orinoco to Madagascar on Prince Thegar's wedding day...etc..."

I have an old vinyl album...Mike Seeger's "2nd Annual Farewell Reunion" with bout Pete & Peggy represented on it....and now it has all 3 autographs on the front.

Yes, I'm glad I went. I'll try & fill in more details later...and post a few pics!