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Seeger and Guthrie: A Tradition Continues

Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 22 July 1983

WHEN ARLO Guthrie and Pete Seeger performed together at Wolf Trap three summers ago, they managed to convince the sell-out crowd that they weren't really in an expensive theater. The two folksingers created the illusion that they were singing for a union meeting in a whitewashed Baptist church in an Eastern Kentucky hollow.

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