Seeger was a force in folk music revival

Published 3:11 pm Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Mike Seeger, 75, a folk musician, music historian and collector of traditional music who was a major influence in the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, died Aug. 7 of multiple myeloma at his home in Lexington, Va.

The younger half brother of folk musician Pete Seeger and part of a renowned musical family, Seeger dedicated his life to documenting, teaching and keeping alive traditional music of the American South.

He played banjo, fiddle, guitar, autoharp, jew’s-harp, quills, dulcimer, mandolin and harmonica, and recorded extensively on Folkways Records and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. He made a number of recordings in the 1950s and 1960s.

Washington Post