![Folk Musician Pete Seeger Performing in Concert Pete Seeger performs at the Bread and Roses III benefit concert, in Berkeley, Calif., on Oct. 5, 1979.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pete-seeger-obit-bread-roses.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
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![Weaver Singing Group From top left (clockwise): Pete Seeger, Lee Hayes, Fred Halterman, and Ronnie Gilbert of The Weavers in Philadelphia, on Feb. 26,1953.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pete-seeger-obit-weavers.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Pete Seeger From left: Henry A. Wallace, making a political tour of the American South, listens to Pete Seeger play the banjo on a plane between Norfolk and Richmond, Aug. 28, 1948.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pete-seeger-obit-henry-wallace.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Pete Seeger And SNCC American folksinger and activist Pete Seeger sings with fellow activists at a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) rally, in Greenwood, Miss., in 1963.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pete-seeger-obit-activist-mississippi.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Pete Seeger records with blues legend Mississippi John Hurt. Pete Seeger (center) and his Toshi sit during a recording session with John Hurt, c. 1960s.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pete-seeger-obit-john-hurt-wife-toshi.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Pete Seeger Pete Seeger conducts an instrument making session on Children’s Day at the Newport, R.I., Folk Festival on July 20, 1966.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pete-seeger-obit-childrens-day.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Banjoist Pete Seeger Pete Seeger, c. 1960s.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pete-seeger-obit-portrait.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Pete Seeger performs in East Berlin Pete Seeger performs on a TV show in East Berlin, on Jan. 3, 1967.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pete-seeger-obit-berlin.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Pete Seeger Folk singer Pete Seeger aboard his boat, the sloop Clearwater, on Aug. 12, 1969, sailing from Massachusetts to New York City.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pete-seeger-obit-sail-boat.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Folk Musician Pete Seeger Performing in Concert Pete Seeger performs at the Bread and Roses III benefit concert, in Berkeley, Calif., on Oct. 5, 1979.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pete-seeger-obit-bread-roses.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Civil Rights Activist Leading Demonstration From left: Pete Seeger, Al Sharpton and other civil rights activists lead a demonstration in protest of the Tawana Brawley incident, in Albany, N.Y., in March 1988.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pete-seeger-obit-activist-martin-luther-king.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Pete Seeger Leads Procession Pete Seeger Leads Procession](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pete-seeger-obit-abbie-hoffman.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Pete Seeger, Julie Harris, and Harry Belafonte at Press Conference From left: Pete Seeger, actress Julie Harris, and actor Harry Belafonte speak at a press conference after being awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 14, 1994.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pete-seeger-obit-national-medal-arts-clinton.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Musician Seeger walks past Baez, Springsteen, Scialfa, Morello and Matthews during concert celebrating Seeger's 90th birthday in New York Pete Seeger (center) with Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Scialfa, Tom Morello and Dave Matthews during a concert celebrating Seeger's 90th birthday at Madison Square Garden in New York City, on May 3, 2009.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pete-seeger-obit-joan-baez-springsteen.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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