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Strummin' on the old banjo

Credits:
Photo / Donna Coveney
Credits:
Photo / Donna Coveney

Folk singer Peggy Seeger (half-sister to Pete Seeger) sang, played guitar and banjo, and talked about folk music in Professor George Ruckert's "Introduction to World Music" class.

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on October 8, 2003.

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