Marcus Yam for The New
York Times. Pete Seeger, with canes, tied the Amuse Wall Road protests by
Friday night. The 92-year-old marched from 95th Street to Columbus Revolve. Record
below.
The Amuse Partition
Street protests have drained their distribute of musical supporters ended the
past little weeks. Resting on Friday night, Pete Seeger lent his articulate to
the cause, all the same the protesters had to go upscale to hear it
Mr. Seeger, whose
activist passport get move backward at least as a long way as a benefit concert
that he and Timbered Guthrie did for California migrant employees in 1940 and
who wrote otherwise helped enter populist ballads comparable similar to “Where Comprise
All the Flowers Gone?” and “If I Had a Hammer,” had been performing on Symphony
Space next to Broadway and 95th Road with Arlo Guthrie, Timbered Guthrie’s son,
and others.
About 11 p.m., Mr.
Pete Seeger, 92, emerged from Symphony Space exhausting a red knit cap and moving
two canes. He next series inedible south, on foot on a stimulating walk up and
down and accompanied by a crowd of about 600, a quantity of of them moving
placards declaring sustain representing the self-declared 99 percent that have been
occupying Zuccotti Park representing five weeks.
The crowd sang as they
marched in the October chill, their voices swelling melodiously and carrying
words to songs Mr. Pete Seeger helped popularize, as well as “Down by the
Riverside,” and “We Shall Not Ensue Moved.”
“He’s a symbol of the
peace movement,” supposed one of the marchers, Larry Manzino, a retired
inquiries scientist from Piscataway, NJ. “He’s a guy who never caved, a guy who
had integrity, a guy who stood cheery and said no when he had to.”
Police officers on end
and in vans traveled with the march. People peered outdated on the crowd
starting storefronts. By West 79th Street, a man silhouetted in the lighted
pane of an apartment gave a thumbs cheery to the marchers under. The crowd
began singing Wooded Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land”
TJ. Frawls, as of
Harlem, who supposed he was in an “apocalyptic punk metal band” called
Collective Truth Machine marched along, strumming a guitar.
Despite the difference
in their preferred genres, he understood he was excited to live performing arts
- sort of - with Mr. Pete Seeger.
“He’s an icon of folk
music, the people’s music.” Mr. Frawls said.
Shortly in the past 1
am. the crowd streamed into the center of Columbus Revolve. Here, surrounded by
voluble fountains, musicians that built-in Arlo Guthrie, Tom Chapin and David
Amram, coupled Mr. Seeger on the base of the Christopher Columbus monument.
The crowd quieted.
Guitars began strumming as Mr. Pete Seeger began singing “We Shall Overcome,” a song
that he introduced to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
