After the events of A Complete Unknown, Pete Seeger went on to a long and successful career in both music and activism.

Bob Dylan has always had a fraught relationship with the world of progressive social change. He wrote some of the most ...

The artist born Robert Zimmerman may not have acknowledged his debt to her, but Seeger is widely regarded as a foundational ...

Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself. It wasn't just that he contributed his tenor (and banjo picking) to two seminal folk groups — the Almanac Singers (with Woody Guthrie) and The Weavers ...

Wilkes-Barre-based folk musician and songwriter Don Shappelle can recall an early, formative moment in his musical journey.

There’s a priceless moment early in “A Complete Unknown” when folk icon Pete Seeger returns to the cabin where he lives with his family after offering a young singer named Bob Dylan a place ...

Film director James Mangold also tells  Esther McCarthy why he focused on that crucial early period in Dylan's career ...

Edward Norton as Pete Seeger in "A Complete Unknown." (Searchlight Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection) ...

The Bob Dylan biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ has scored eight Oscar nominations, while Elton John and Brandi Carlile received a nod for Best Original Song.

It took a while for the Popular Front’s strategy to get results in popular music—and Pete Seeger was the catalyst.” Seeger joined the Communist Party in 1942 and, in time, learned to make ...

The real-life people who show up in the movie A Complete Unknown, about young Bob Dylan, inspired a look at Pete Seeger's appearance on CBC-TV in 1965.

Though A Complete Unknown is about Bob Dylan, the film also dives deep into the life of Pete Seeger. The folk singer was instrumental in discovering and mentoring Dylan, and the film follows how ...