Pete Seeger listens during a 1964 Newport Folk Festival workshop. Photo by Diana Davies. Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

Pete Seeger performs with Bernice Johnson Reagon at a special Lead Belly Concert sponsored by Sing Out! Magazine at New York Town Hall, New York City. Photo by Diana Davies. Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

Pete Seeger at his home in Beacon, New York. November 3, 2005. Photo by Bruce Mondschain. Courtesy of Bruce Mondschain

Pete Seeger performs in a concert at New York's Carnegie Hall honoring fifty years of Folkways Records, May 1, 1998. Photo by Diana Davies. Photo by Jeff Tinsley. Courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

The Weavers - Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, and Fred Hellerman - perform at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, Illinois, January 13, 1958. Photo by Robert C Malone. Courtesy of the Robert C Malone Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

Pete Seeger in India. Courtesy of the Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.