August 7, 2009(2009-08-07) (aged 75) Lexington, Virginia, U.S.
Genres
Old-time
folk
Occupation(s)
Musician
singer
Instrument(s)
Autoharp
banjo
fiddle
Appalachian dulcimer
guitar
mandolin
dobro
jaw harp
harmonica
pan pipes
shaker
double bass
Labels
Folkways
Rounder
Arhoolie
Argo
Greenhays
5-String Productions
Appalseed
Musical artist
Mike Seeger (August 15, 1933 – August 7, 2009) was an American folk musician and folklorist. He was a distinctive singer and an accomplished musician who played autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, mouth harp, mandolin, dobro, jaw harp, and pan pipes.[1][2] Seeger, a half-brother of Pete Seeger, produced more than 30 documentary recordings, and performed in more than 40 other recordings. He desired to make known the caretakers of culture that inspired and taught him.[3] He was posthumously inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2018.[4]
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^"Mike Seeger: Musician, Cultural Scholar, and Advocate". National Endowment for the Arts, National Heritage Fellowships. National Endowment for the Arts. 2009. Archived from the original on June 2, 2010. Retrieved August 8, 2009. Bess Lomax Hawes NEA National Heritage Fellowship
^"Recipient History". International Bluegrass Music Association. 2023. Retrieved February 25, 2024.
MikeSeeger (August 15, 1933 – August 7, 2009) was an American folk musician and folklorist. He was a distinctive singer and an accomplished musician...
Administration. One of her brothers was MikeSeeger, and Pete Seeger was her half-brother. Poet Alan Seeger was her uncle. One of her first recordings...
folk singers Pete Seeger (1919–2014), Peggy Seeger (b. 1935), and MikeSeeger (1933–2009); and brother of the World War I poet Alan Seeger (1888–1916) and...
musicologist; he was also the uncle of folk musicians Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, and MikeSeeger. He is lauded for the poem "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"...
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Hazel Dickens, and as part of The Strange Creek Singers (with Dickens, MikeSeeger, Tracy Schwarz, and Lamar Grier) and The Back Creek Buddies (with Matokie...
revival. MikeSeeger, John Cohen and Tom Paley were its founding members. Tracy Schwarz replaced Paley, who left the group in 1962. Seeger died of cancer...
second wife of Charles; 4 children MikeSeeger (1933–2009), American folk musician and folklorist Chris Arley Seeger (born 1961), technologist, broadcast...
recorded a version. 1962 – It appears on MikeSeeger's album Old Time Country Music, Folkways FA 2325. MikeSeeger recorded three versions of the song. 1962 –...
time for Ruth Crawford Seeger and Charles Seeger, and caring for their children, Mike, Peggy, Barbara, and Penny. The Seeger family kids, who were too...
sold his guitar, remaining obscure for the next twenty years. In 1965, MikeSeeger, fresh from a collaboration with Maybelle Carter, tracked down Riddle...
earlier—where she got a job working in a factory. She met MikeSeeger, younger half-brother of Pete Seeger and founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers,...
documenting MikeSeeger's final trip through Appalachia in 2009, Just Around The Bend: Survival and Revival in Southern Banjo Styles – MikeSeeger’s Last Documentary...
such origins as the British Isles, Mainland Europe, or Africa. Musician MikeSeeger once famously commented that the definition of American folk music is...
Frederik, Odetta, Esther Ofarim, Reptile Palace Orchestra, Pete Seeger and MikeSeeger, Show of Hands, Red Smiley, Town Criers, the Weavers, Wally Whyton...
Ritchie MikeSeeger Sounds of the South Williams Family 1976 Cabbage Crik Easy Pickins Highwoods String Band Pine River Valley Boys MikeSeeger Stillhouse...
Mine MikeSeeger for Southern Banjo Sounds 2000 June Carter Cash Press On Ramblin' Jack Elliott for The Long Ride David Grisman, John Hartford, Mike Seeger...
included on the 1979 album Sam Chatmon's Advice 1964 – MikeSeeger, on the album MikeSeeger 1965 – The Holy Modal Rounders, on the album The Holy Modal...
Adrift (2017) and for the video game series The Dark Pictures Anthology. MikeSeeger with the medieval ensemble Hesperus, on Crossing Over (1988). Rhiannon...
Maybelle's guitar style has been characterized by archivist and musician MikeSeeger as having a "fluid, flowing, rhythmic sound, a way of playing the melody...
century of American folklore, ballads, and tunes. He has performed with MikeSeeger, Joe Thompson, Martin Simpson, Boo Hanks, Taj Mahal, Old Crow Medicine...
John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful MikeSeeger Karen Mueller Amy Dutronc of Smokers Die Younger Peggy Seeger Jo Ann Smith Kilby Snow Jamie Stewart...
United States, the folk music scholar MikeSeeger sought out and found Boggs at his home near Needmore, Virginia. Seeger was delighted to learn that Boggs...
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