Pete Seeger, folk pioneer and activist, dies at 94

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Pete Seeger, a rail-thin, banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that spanned seven decades, has died. He was 94.

Seeger’s grandson, Kitama Cahill-Jackson, said he died peacefully in his sleep at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he had been for six days.

Seeger remained active almost until the end, marching in the Occupy Wall Street protest of 2011 and singing Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” with Bruce Springsteen in 2009 in the Obama inauguration.

“My job is to show folks there’s a lot of good music in this world and, if used right, it may help to save the planet,” he said in 2009.

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