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FILE- In this May 13, 2004 file photo, the sloop Clearwater sails up the Hudson River in New York, during a news conference celebrating the ship's placement on the national register of historic places. Clearwater's founders and crew members will gather with public officials in Beacon, N.Y. on Friday, May 17, 2019, to mark the 50th anniversary of the sloop's launch. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Pete Seeger’s Clearwater is marking 50 years

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This image released courtesy of the Lead Belly Estate shows folk and blues musician Huddie William Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly. Huddie &quot;Lead Belly&quot; Ledbetter never had a hit record before he died of Lou Gehrig's disease in 1949. But the folk-singing legend, who is being celebrated as part of Black History Month with a TV documentary and 5-CD box set, left behind a treasure trove of recordings. Among those influenced by Lead Belly, best known for his recordings of “Good Night Irene” and “The Midnight Special:” Lonnie Donegan, the founding father of British pop, who inspired British teens to form skiffle groups, including 15-year-old John Lennon who founded The Quarrymen in 1956 and later added Paul McCartney and George Harrison to the band. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Lead Belly Estate)

Smithsonian TV documentary, box set celebrate Lead Belly

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"Turn! Turn! Turn!" by the Byrds (written in the 1950s by folksinger Pete Seeger)

The Bible’s Influence in American Music

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FILE- In this Sept. 21, 2013 file photo, Pete Seeger performs on stage during the Farm Aid 2013 concert at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Seeger, who died on Jan 27, 2014 at age 94, will be honored with a few early event on Saturday, May 3, 2014, what would have been his 95th birthday. Suggestions for memorializing the singer/activist ranger from renaming a park in his home town to naming the new bridge that will replace the Tappan Zee bridge across the Hudson River in New York after him. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

Admirers wrestle with how to honor Pete Seeger

By MICHAEL HILL - Associated Press

FILE - This Sept. 21, 2013, file photo shows Pete Seeger performing on stage during the Farm Aid 2013 concert at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Seeger’s life will be celebrated at the annual Clearwater Festival this summer. Seeger died in January at age 94, after surviving his wife Toshi by about seven months. Clearwater Festival organizers say the two-day show at Croton-on-Hudson starting June 21 will celebrate the couple’s legacy. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

Seeger will be celebrated at Hudson River festival

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Pete Seeger celebration planned in St. Paul

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File- This Feb. 25, 1984, file photo shows folk singer Pete Seeger performing in a one-man benefit concert in Berkeley, Calif., at the Berkeley Community Theater. Hundreds of friends and fans joined in song Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014, to honor Seeger, doing what the folk singer loved best. Seeger died Jan. 27 at age 94; no services were planned. (AP Photo/Mark Costantini, File)

Songs by friends, fans mark Pete Seeger memorial

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US Portrait Gallery installs photo of Pete Seeger

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Musician Pete Seeger to be honored next month

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FILE - In this April 4, 1961 file photo, Pete Seeger, with a banjo slung over his shoulder, is accompanied by his wife, Toshi, as he arrives at the federal court in New York for sentencing on a conviction for contempt of Congress. He was given a one-year sentence for refusing to answer questions about possible Communist affiliations. Before he was sentenced, Seeger asked Judge Thomas F. Murphy for permission to sing a song. The judge declined. The sentence was eventually overturned on appeal. (AP Photo)

AP WAS THERE: Pete Seeger’s HUAC testimony

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Pol floats idea of naming new NY bridge for Seeger

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Family: American troubadour, folk singer and activist Pete Seeger has died at age 94

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** FILE ** This Sept. 21, 2013, file photo shows Pete Seeger performing on stage during the Farm Aid 2013 concert at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The American troubadour, folk singer and activist Seeger died Monday Jan. 27, 2014, at age 94. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

Folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies at 94

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Pete Seeger’s legacy marked along Hudson River

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Obama: Seeger believed in the power of community

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