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Seeger family

  • Charles Seeger
    Charles Seeger
    Charles Seeger, Jr. was a noted musicologist, composer, and teacher. He was the father of iconic American folk singer Pete Seeger .-Life:...

     (1886 - 1979), American musicologist, composer, and teacher; Constance Edson Seeger, violinist; first wife of Charles; 3 children
  • Charles Seeger III, (1912-2002) astronomer
  • John Seeger, (1914 - 2010), high school principal and co-founder of Camp Killooleet, a summer camp in Vermont
  • Pete Seeger
    Pete Seeger
    Peter "Pete" Seeger is an American folk singer and was an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, most notably their recording of Lead...

     (b. 1919), one of the pre-eminent American folk and protest singers of the 20th century
  • Mika Seeger
    Mika Seeger
    Mika Seeger is an American ceramic artist of Rhode Island. Although not primarily a musical artist, she did record a definitive version of Great Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts...

     American ceramic artist; daughter of Pete
  • Tao Rodríguez-Seeger
    Tao Rodríguez-Seeger
    Tao Rodríguez-Seeger is an American contemporary folk musician. He plays banjo, guitar, harmonica, and sings in Spanish and in English. He is known as a founder of The Mammals and is the grandson of folk musician Pete Seeger....

     (b. 1972), a contemporary American folk musician; son of Mika Ruth Crawford Seeger
    Ruth Crawford Seeger
    Ruth Crawford Seeger , born Ruth Porter Crawford, was a modernist composer and an American folk music specialist.-Life:...

     (1901 - 1953), a modernist composer and an American folk music specialist; second wife of Charles; 4 children
  • Mike Seeger
    Mike Seeger
    Mike Seeger was an American folk musician and folklorist. He was a distinctive singer and an accomplished musician who played autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, mouth harp, mandolin, dobro, jaw harp, and pan pipes. Seeger, a half-brother of Pete Seeger, produced more than 30 documentary...

     (1933 - 2009), American folk musician and folklorist
  • Chris Arley Seeger (b. 1961), Technologist, Broadcast Engineer, Mixer/Editor; Married to Laura Vaccaro Seeger
    Laura Vaccaro Seeger
    Laura Vaccaro Seeger is an American author and artist of children's books.Laura Vaccaro Seeger is a New York Times best-selling author and illustrator and the recipient of a 2008 Caldecott Honor, a 2008 Geisel Honor, a 2007 New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award, and the 2007 Boston Globe-Horn...

    , a childrens book author/illustrator
  • Peggy Seeger
    Peggy Seeger
    Margaret "Peggy" Seeger is an American folksinger. She is also well known in Britain, where she lived for more than 30 years with her husband, singer and songwriter Ewan MacColl.- The first American period :...

     (b. 1935), American folk singer; wife of English folk singer Ewan MacColl
    Ewan MacColl
    Ewan MacColl was an English folk singer, songwriter, socialist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer. He was married to theatre director Joan Littlewood, and later to American folksinger Peggy Seeger. He collaborated with Littlewood in the theatre and with Seeger in folk music...

     and stepmother of singer Kirsty MacColl
    Kirsty MacColl
    Kirsty Anna MacColl was an English singer-songwriter.MacColl scored several pop hits from the early 1980s to the early 1990s...

  • Neil MacColl guitarist for David Gray
    David Gray
    David Gray may refer to:*David Gray , Scottish poet*David Gray , English singer-songwriter*David Gray , Scottish footballer*David Gray , Scottish footballer...

     son of Peggy Seeger & Ewan MaColl.
  • Jamie MacColl guitarist in Bombay Bicycle Club
    Bombay Bicycle Club
    Bombay Bicycle Club are a British indie rock and folk band from Crouch End, London. The band comprises: Jack Steadman , Jamie MacColl , Ed Nash and Suren de Saram ....

     and Neil MacColl's son.
  • Barbara Seeger, appeared on Animal Songs for Children (1992) with Mike Seeger and others
  • Penny Seeger, married John Cohen
    • Alan Seeger
      Alan Seeger
      Alan Seeger was an American poet who fought and died in World War I serving in the French Foreign Legion. A statue to his memory and to...

       (1888 – 1916), American poet; brother of Charles
    • Elizabeth Seeger (1889 - 1973), teacher at Dalton School and author; sister of Charles and Alan

Others

  • Al Seeger
    Al Seeger
    Al Seeger , nicknamed "The Quiet Storm", is a boxer from the United States.- Background :Al Seeger was born in on January 23, 1980 to Bonnie and Al Seeger. He spent most of his younger years traveling abroad with the family...

     (b. 1980), a boxer from the United States
  • Melanie Seeger
    Melanie Seeger
    Melanie Seeger is a German race walker. She has represented Germany at the Summer Olympics on two occasions...

     (b. 1977), a German race walker
  • Daniel Seeger
    Daniel Seeger
    Daniel Andrew Seeger is a retired American non-profit-business administrator, and a Quaker religion and social-issue writer, who was earlier a defendant in a case on conscription of pacifists that was decided by the Supreme Court....

     (b.1934), defendant in a case on conscription of pacifists
  • Hal Seeger
    Hal Seeger
    Harold "Hal" Seeger was an animated cartoon producer and director who owned his own studio the Hal Seeger Studio ....

     (1917 - 2005), an animated cartoon producer and director
  • Louis Seeger
    Louis Seeger
    Louis Seeger was a German equestrian who published several books and was influential in the development of dressage. Trained under Maximilian Weyrother, his methods were highly influenced by the great François Robichon de la Guérinière...

     (1798 - 1865), a German equestrian

Legal cases

"Seeger" may also reference either of two legal cases involving the individuals above:
  • United States v. Seeger
    United States v. Seeger
    United States v. Seeger, 380 U.S. 163 , was a case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that the exemption from the military draft for conscientious objectors could not be reserved only for those professing conformity with the moral directives of a supreme being, but also for those whose...

    , regarding Daniel Seeger
    Daniel Seeger
    Daniel Andrew Seeger is a retired American non-profit-business administrator, and a Quaker religion and social-issue writer, who was earlier a defendant in a case on conscription of pacifists that was decided by the Supreme Court....

    's conscription
  • Seeger v. United States, regarding Pete Seeger's refusal to testify in front of HUAC

Schools

  • Seeger Memorial Junior-Senior High School
    Seeger Memorial Junior-Senior High School
    Seeger Memorial Junior-Senior High School is the single high school serving Warren County, Indiana, and is located a mile and a half north of the town of West Lebanon. It is administered by the Metropolitan School District of Warren County in Williamsport...

     in West Lebanon, Indiana
  • Elizabeth Seeger School in Greenwich Village, established in 1971 by 5 teachers from Dalton School
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