Artists, activists call for action on climate change and social concerns at Pete Seeger's Clearwater Festival
-- headlined the opening day of the Great Hudson River Revival Saturday to benefit Pete Seeger’s environmental sloop Clearwater, which the late folk icon launched 50 years ago to save the river.
The two-day Clearwater Festival -- Railroad Earth and the Wailers are Sunday’s headliners -- is a fundraiser for the Clearwater, a 106-foot-long wooden replica of a Dutch sailing vessel, which Seeger launched 50 years ago on May 17, 1969. . The weekend, which also celebrated the centennial of Seeger’s birth on May 3, 1919, began as supporters set sail on the Clearwater Friday evening for a singalong on the Hudson led by Tom Chapin and his daughters, Abigail and Lily, who perform as the Chapin Sisters.
With some 90 artists performing on eight stages across the two days, the Clearwater Festival reflected Pete Seeger’s embrace of songs from all cultures.
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