PUTNAM VALLEY – The Tompkins Corners Cultural Center has announced the details of the fifth annual Pete Seeger Festival to celebrate the life and legacy of the cultural icon. The event is happening on Sunday, May 2nd, from 2 to 5 pm at the Putnam Valley facility.
“The festival is held to celebrate the musical, environmental and humanitarian legacy of our neighbor, mentor, and friend, Pete Seeger,” said a spokesperson for the event.
The free, family-friendly event is slated to happen outdoors on the Tompkins Corners lawn, with COVID guidelines in place (masks required and social distancing). If the weather is unsuitable for outdoors, the stage will be set up in the carriage shed. Refreshments will be available. Donations will be accepted and shared with local organizations that Seeger created, including the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, the Beacon Sloop Club, and the River Pool at Beacon.
Scheduled performers include David and Jacob Bernz, Betty and the Baby Boomers, Lydia Adams Davis, Patrick Stanfield Jones, Pat Lamanna, Sharleen Leahey, the Trouble Sisters: Melissa Ortquist, Laurie Siegel and Karen Brooks, Andy Revkin, and Sarah Underhill.
The musicians were all Pete’s friends who performed with him and sailed with him on the sloops Clearwater and Woody Guthrie and worked with him at the Beacon Sloop Club. In addition to singing Pete’s songs and their own, they will reminisce about the man who inspired so many people in the course of his 94 years.
The center’s Visual Arts Department is bringing fine craft vendors to the Seeger Fest with Birdhouses by Amy Barry, Wooden bowls by Jan Hoekstra, and Jewelry by Denise Leaden.
Tompkins Corners Cultural Center is a 501c3 not-for-profit organization located in the historic church at 729 Peekskill Hollow Road in Putnam Valley, NY.
