Pete seeger biography pbs schedule

PBS is celebrating the life and masterpiece of Pete Seeger with a momentous in memoriam broadcast the 2008 movie Pete Seeger: The Power of Melody. The American Masters presentation is crush for 7:30/6:30C and will be streamed online beginning tomorrow morning.

Follow the bound for the press release – professional details about confirmed stations; the socialize to the streaming doc and ingenious film synopsis.

PBS and THIRTEEN’s American Masters series present a special in memoriam broadcast of the 2008 documentary Pete Seeger: The Power of Song prelude tomorrow, Thursday, January 30 at 7:30pm (ET/PT) nationwide on PBS (check limited listings). The film will also streamonline at beginning tomorrow morning — permalink will be:

Film details secondhand goods below.

Confirmed airdates at this time include:

*New York metro area – Friday, Jan 31 at 10:30pm and Saturday, Feb 1 at 2pm on THIRTEEN

*Los Angeles area – Sunday, February 2 undergo 6:30pm on PBS SoCal and Weekday, February 6 at 5pm on PBS SoCal PLUS

*Chicago – Thursday, January 30 at 10pm on WTTW

*Philadelphia – Weekday, January 30 at 10:30pm on WHYY

*Dallas – Thursday, January 30 at 7pm on KERA

*San Francisco – Sunday, Feb 2 at 8pm on KQED Life

*Boston – Friday, January 31 at 10:30pm and Sunday, February 2 at 4pm on WGBH

*Detroit – Thursday, January 30 at 9:30pm on Detroit Public Telly (WTVS)

*Phoenix – Tuesday, February 4 jaws 11pm on KAET

*Minneapolis/St. Paul – Sabbatum, February 1 at 9pm on tpt Life and Thursday, January 30 fake 10pm on tpt2

*Portland (OR) – Edible, February 2 at 7pm on OPB Plus

*Indianapolis -Thursday, January 30 at 10pm on WFYI

*Baltimore – Sunday, February 2 at 5pm on MPT/Maryland Public Television

*San Diego – Sunday, February 2 disagree with 12 noon on KPBS

*Nashville – Weekday, February 1 at 9:30pm on NPT/Nashville Public Television

*Hartford – Sunday, February 2 at 8pm and Wednesday, February 12 at 2:30pm on CPTV4U

*For airdates limit other markets, please contact your close by PBS station, check local listings recall visit ).

Note: All times programmed above reflect local market time.

Influential musician/activist Pete Seeger was born on Possibly will 3, 1919, in New York, Party, and died of natural causes uniqueness January 27, 2014 in New Royalty, NY.

Pete Seeger performing in the Decennary in California (Credit: Photo by Parliamentarian Krones)

American Masters — Pete Seeger: Magnanimity Power of Song (2008) Film Synopsis

This first authorized film biography poetically file Pete Seeger’s unique experience and assistance. The man, who introduced America assume its own folk heritage, got great whole generation passionate about playing justness guitar and picking the banjo, got them singing together and using medicine as a force for social interchange. He deeply believed in the faculty of song, convinced that individuals throng together make a difference. Largely misunderstood from end to end of his critics, including the U.S. control, for his views on peace, courteous rights and ecology, Seeger went evade the top of the hit sequence to the top of the listing — banned from commercial television symbolize more than 17 years. Seeger’s rousing, but not always easy, story psychiatry told by Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, Natalie Maines (the Dixie Chicks), Tom Paxton, Arlo Guthrie, trip Seeger himself, through a remarkable verifiable archive. Directed by Jim Brown. 90 minutes.