Pete Seeger is 90 today. His music and wit have been part of our extended family for many years. We sing his version of We Gather Together To Thank Thee Our Father before every family celebration. There was a brief discussion of going to his birthday concert in Madison Square Garden today but we decided against it. Perhaps he will be able to travel here again soon. He is invited every year to be part of the Children's Dance Theatre concert but has been able to come since 2002.
CNN interviewed him at the New Orleans Jazz Festival-
CNN: How important is it to have storytelling out there in this day in age?
Seeger: There's always a danger that you let the machine do it for you. And I think what we are going to see in the next few years, is people finding a way they can do something themselves. Whatever it is.
I put it this way: The agriculture revolution took thousands of years, the industrial revolution took hundreds of years, but the information [revolution] is only taking decades. And if you use it, use the brains God gave us, miracles are going to happen.
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