Singing with Pete Seeger
Singing with
Pete Seeger
A songwriting friendship and a birthday celebration shared with Moya and Fionán.
Collaboration & Clearwater celebration · 2009A songwriting friendship and a birthday celebration shared with Moya and Fionán.
Tommy and Pete Seeger’s friendship produced The Music of Healing, a song they wrote and performed together. Appleseed’s biography describes how it became the theme of Tommy’s Belfast Citizens’ Assembly, linking a recording collaboration with his peace work.
A birthday at Madison Square Garden
In a 2016 interview, Tommy recalled performing at Seeger’s 90th birthday celebration at Madison Square Garden. The Clearwater concert recording credits Tommy, Moya and Fionán Sands alongside Bruce Foley on Little Boxes.
A song carried into other settings
The friendship connects several parts of Tommy’s story: writing, recording and gathering people together. The Music of Healing appears on The Heart’s a Wonder, while the birthday concert brought the collaboration into a celebration involving a much wider musical community.