The folk icon Pete Seeger was blacklisted from American network television and radio for over a decade during the McCarthy-era 1950s and 60s. Targeted by House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1955, Seeger refused to name associates which led to a contempt of Congress conviction. We celebrate Pete Seeger’s music and activism on tonight’s show.

On Saturday April 26, local musicians will gather to honor Pete Seeger’s legacy at the Greenwich Odeum theater. The show is a benefit for the Rhode Island Folk Festival (RIFF)

Oh, the Summertime is Coming…

– Kate Rusby “Blooming Heather (Will Ye Go Lassie Go)” (trad) Awkward Annie
– Fairport Convention “Come All Ye” (R Thompson) Leige and Leif, 1969
– Laura Marling “Caroline Something” Live at Albert Hall
– Altan “Dulaman” (trad)  Island Angel, 1993

Johnny Cloherty harvesting seaweed (dulaman) near Carna, Co Galway. . Breathing seaweed fumes is good for health, research shows.

Precious Pete and a Pickup

– Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie “Circles” Precious Friend, 1981
– Avi Jacob “Pickup Truck”

“Eres Tú” Pope Leo
– Ry Cooder theme from “Paris Texas”
– Carla Morrison “Eres Tú”  Déjenme Llorar
– Rickie Lee Jones “Theme for the Pope” The Magazine 1984
– the Pogues  “theme from The Good the Bad & the Ugly (Ennio Morricone)

If I Had a Hammer
Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie concert recording “Precious Friend”:
– Arlo Guthrie “Run Come See Jerusalem” (Blind Blake)
– Pete Seeger “Old Time Religion” (trad/additional new lyrics P Seeger)
– Arlo Guthrie “Do, Re, Mi” (Woody Guthrie)
– Pete Seeger Wimoweh (Mbube) traditional
– Pete Seeger “Kissees Sweeter than Wine” (Seeger/Hays)

Arlo & Pete

Hawaiian Steel Guitar Classics 1920-1950s
– Kalama’s Quartet “Hilo March”
– Sam Ku West “Hawaiian Hula” (Huehue)
– Honolulu Players “Leilehua”
– Sol Hoopi “Lepe Ula Ula”

Woodstock Mountains: From More Music From Mud Acres, 1978
– Jon Herald “Bluegrass Boy” (Herald)
– Artie Traum “Cold Front” (Traum)
– Jim Rooney “Sleep with One Eye Open” (Lester Flatt)
– Roly Salley “Killing the Blues” (Salley)
– Eric Anderson “Waiting For a Train” (J Rodgers)
– John Sebastian “Morning Blues” (trad)
– Artie Traum “Titanic” (Leadbelly) 

 from the film Straight to Hell (Alex Cox, 1987)
– The Pogues “Rake the Gates of Hell” (S MacGowan)
– The Pogues “If I Should Fall From the Grace of God” (S MacGowan)
– The Pogues “Rabinga” (S MacGowan)

WRIU Radiothon 2026 / “Thank You Very Much” (from “Scrooge”)

The Hobbledehoy Set (Traditional Music from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales)

– Fairport Convention “Farewell, Farewell” (aka “Willy O’Winsbury”)
– Fairport Convention “I’ll Keep It With Mine” (Dylan)
– Fairport Convention “Ballad of an Easy Rider” (McGuinn/Dylan)
– Bert Jansch “Wagoner’s Lad” (trad) Jack Orion 1966
– Bert Jansch “Backwater Slide” Jack Orion 1966
– Bert Jansch “First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” Jack Orion 1966
– Altan “An Mhaighdean Mhara” (The Mermaid) (trad) Island Angel, 1993
– Altan “Jug of Punch” (trad) Island Angel, 1993
– Enya “Na Laetha Geal M’óige” Watermark, 1988
– Alexi Murdoch “Breathe” Time Without Consequence  2006
– Alexi Murdoch “All of My Days” Time Without Consequence  2006

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