Seeger was a celebrated presence in the Greenwich Village folk scene into which an unknown singer-songwriter named Bob Dylan ...

The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died at ...

The new film, “A Complete Unknown,” tells the story of Bob Dylan’s rise to success in the early 1960s, but the movie leaves ...

Singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow, of the 1960's era musical trio "Peter Paul and Mary," performs during a memorial tribute concert for folk icon and civil rights activist Pete Seeger in New York on ...

of the 1960’s era musical trio “Peter Paul and Mary,” performs during a memorial tribute concert for folk icon and civil rights activist Pete Seeger in New York on July 20, 2014.

He took violin lessons as a child, later switching to guitar as he came to embrace the work of such folk-music icons as Woody Guthrie and Pete ... songs include the civil rights anthem "No Easy ...

Peter Yarrow performs during a memorial tribute concert for folk singer and civil rights activist Pete Seeger in New York in 2014 (Kathy Willens/AP) Upon graduating from Cornell University in 1959 ...