Arts & Entertainment
Free Concert to Pay Tribute to Legend Pete Seeger
Bucks County Community College will present 'Songs to Change the World By: The Legacy of Pete Seeger' next week.
Bucks County Community College will pay tribute to folk legend and political activist Pete Seeger during a concert next week led by a faculty member.
Professor David Brahinsky will perform acoustic guitar and vocals during a lunchtime concert Thursday. The program, called Songs to Change the World By: The Legacy of Pete Seeger, is open to the public.
Music will begin at 12:30 p.m. in the Music and Multimedia Center on the college's Newtown Campus, 275 Swamp Rd, Newtown.
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Pete Seeger was 94 when he passed away in January. He died the day after he was up for a GRAMMY for Best Spoken Word Album for "The Storm King," an audio book of stories, narratives and poems put to music.
"We Shall Overcome," a song that Seeger adapted and popularized, became the anthem of the nation's civil rights movement in 1960.
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