http://www.mail.com/people/234842-pete-seeger.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/people/234842-pete-seeger.html http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2047610-woody-guthrie-center-opens-saturday-tulsa.html TULSA, Okla. (AP) — It took Woody Guthrie's hometown of Okemah more than 30 years after his death to finally celebrate his life and work with an annual music festival, and signs of acknowledgment in other parts of Oklahoma have been rare. Monuments and exhibits honoring Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers and songwriters who died in 1967, were... Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:46:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2047610-woody-guthrie-center-opens-saturday-tulsa.html 2013-04-26T21:46:11Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1888768-ny-school-names-theater-singer-pete-seeger.html BEACON, N.Y. (AP) — The high school in Pete Seeger's upstate New York hometown has named its theater after the 93-year-old folk singer and his wife. A ceremony held Tuesday night unveiled a bronze plaque outside the theater at Beacon High School in Dutchess County. The plaque identifies the venue as "The Seeger Theatre" and is adorned with an engraving of... Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:02:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1888768-ny-school-names-theater-singer-pete-seeger.html 2013-02-13T13:02:17Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1832588-hundreds-honor-activist-swartz-nyc.html NEW YORK (AP) — Portraying his suicide as the product of injustice, friends and supporters at a memorial Saturday for free-information advocate Aaron Swartz called for changing computer-crime laws and the legal system itself. At a New York City ceremony that was part tribute and part rallying cry, Swartz — who killed himself this month as he faced trial o... Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1832588-hundreds-honor-activist-swartz-nyc.html 2013-01-20T01:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1767090-common-brings-awareness-to-help-free-peltier.html NEW YORK (AP) — When Harry Belafonte asked Common to participate in a benefit concert in support of freeing Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who is serving two life sentences for the 1975 execution-style deaths of two FBI agents, he did some research before giving his answer.   "I did my own due diligence," Common said in a telephone interview Th... Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:49:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1767090-common-brings-awareness-to-help-free-peltier.html 2012-12-14T16:49:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1752068-okee-dokee-brothers-ride-river-to-grammy-nod.html MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — For a musical duo that have known each other since they were 3 years old, there's something extra special about landing a Grammy nomination for Best Children's Album. Joe Mailander and Justin Lansing are the Okee Dokee Brothers, a Minneapolis-based bluegrass band who have been making their kid-oriented music since 2005. But their roots ... Fri, 07 Dec 2012 22:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1752068-okee-dokee-brothers-ride-river-to-grammy-nod.html 2012-12-07T22:17:00Z