Topic - Alan Lomax

• Pete Seeger enters 9th decade as an activist

  Tao Rodriguez-Seeger was halfway through Friday night's march down Broadway to support the Occupy Wall Street movement, a guitar strapped over his shoulder and his grandfather Pete Seeger at his side. Suddenly a New York City police officer stepped from the crowd and grabbed his elbow.

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  Listening Station: 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?'

  Before the Coen brothers released "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" in late 2000, nostalgia for old-timey music was at an all-time low.

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  Irwin Silber, Sing Out magazine co-founder, dies

  Irwin Silber, who as founding editor of the small but influential magazine Sing Out became a towering figure in the 1960s American folk music renaissance that brought Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie and numerous others to prominence, has died at age 84.

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