Without a financial lifeline from the music community and others, Pete Seeger’s Clearwater organization may cease operating due to the coronavirus pandemic.
and the flagship of one of the nation’s oldest music-rooted activist organizations -- may never sail again, as the coronavirus pandemic halts its activities and threatens its solvency.
Just over a decade ago, on May 3, 2009, Seeger took center stage at Madison Square Garden for a 90th birthday concert to benefit theMore than 40 performers -- including Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Joan Baez, Dave Matthews, Arlo Guthrie, Ani DiFranco and more -- acknowledged their deep artistic debt to the pioneering folk musician.organization may cease operating, according to a statement emailed to supporters Friday.
Seeger, who passed away in 2014 at age 94, was one of the most influential cultural figures of the 20th century and a committed activist. He sang for the labor movement , progressive politics , the anti-war movement , the fight against economic inequality and the Civil Rights movement ., a 106-foot-long replica of a 19th century wooden Dutch sailing vessel, as a tangible act of environmentalism and grass-roots activism.
“Some people might think it’s the most frivolous thing in the world to raise money for a sailboat,” said Seeger, according to a report on an early fundraiser in the New York Times. “But we want people to love the Hudson, not to think of it as a convenient sewer.
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