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Clearwater Festival tickets on sale, initial lineup announced

Antibalas will play the 2013 Clearwater Festival in

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Tickets went on sale this week for the Clearwater Festival, a music event founded by the Hudson Valley's own Pete Seeger that takes place annually in Croton-on-Hudson.

Announced early last week, the first artists to confirm that they're in for this year's fest include Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings, Hot Tuna, Son Volt, Patterson Hood, Antibalas, David Bromberg Quartet, Jorma Kaukonen and Steve...

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Pete Seeger to Andrew Cuomo: Let's write a fracking song

Pete Seeger sings quot;If I Had a Hammerquot;

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Simon and Garfunkel. Rodgers and Hammerstien. Lennon and McCartney. Seeger and Cuomo?

Folk music legend Pete Seeger is trying to form an unlikely musical alliance with Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

"Dear Mr. Governor, I've got a song half written," Seeger, a longtime Fishkill resident, scrawled on a piece of blank sheet music paper, proposing the two make some sweet music together with...

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