Fact #79425
When:
Short story:
Pete Seeger plays to a full house in The Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK, Europe.
Full article:
Bruce Dunnet (Singers Club) : That was the first concert I ever did (i.e. promoted). There was nothing of that size before it. The largest folk concerts had been St. Pancras Town Hall which seats 960 and was very seldom full. But it was politics : Pete Seeger needed his passport back. I signed his work permit for the Royal Albert Hall. How we did it I don't know. It was the folk-song people, the Communist Party, Labour Party, woodcraft-folk from the co-operative movement - every bloody organisation you could think of.
(Source : Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival
by Colin Harper)
Martin Carthy (folk musician) : It was a huge movement, because there had been this campaign to get Pete Seeger over to England. (Senator Joseph) McCarthy was dead by that time but the House Un-American Activities Committee still lived on and they'd taken his passport away. This campaign had managed to get his passport back.
(Source : Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival
by Colin Harper)
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(Source : Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival
by Colin Harper)
Martin Carthy (folk musician) : It was a huge movement, because there had been this campaign to get Pete Seeger over to England. (Senator Joseph) McCarthy was dead by that time but the House Un-American Activities Committee still lived on and they'd taken his passport away. This campaign had managed to get his passport back.
(Source : Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival
by Colin Harper)