In 1949, along with Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman, and Ronnie Gilbert, Seeger formed the Weavers. ![]() The slogan of the organization was "Songs of Labor and the American People." Pete and Woody also started using the word "hootenanny" to describe their gatherings, a term which would come to larger prominence a few years later. After the Almanacs disbanded in 1945, Pete became national director of People's Songs (later People's Artists), a national topical folk song organization and magazine which was a pre-cursor to Broadside. He accompanied Woody Guthrie west on one of Guthrie's forays, later joining Woody on one of the first great topical singing groups, the Almanac Singers, which also included Bess Lomax, Sis Cunningham, Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, and others. ![]() ![]() Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections.ĭropping out of Harvard in 1938, Seeger began to work for Alan Lomax at the Library of Congress Archive of Folk Song, assisting in recording trips.
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