![]() ![]() In 1936 he entered Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to study sociology. His interest in grass roots music and the five-string banjo began in 1935, when he attended a folk festival in Asheville, North Carolina. He then entered Avon Old Farms, a private boarding school in Connecticut. Seeger received his primary education at public schools in Nyack, New York, and at the Spring Hill School in Litchfield, Connecticut. ![]() He also had three half brothers and one half sister from his father's subsequent marriage to the musicologist Ruth Crawford. Seeger was one of three sons born to Charles Louis Seeger, a noted musicologist and college professor, and Constance de Clyver (Edson) Seeger, a violinist and teacher. ![]() in New York City), folk singer, folklorist, environmentalist, and social and political critic whose words and music during the 1960s de-cried U.S. ![]()
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