Seeger - Seeger Family

Seeger Family

• Charles Seeger (1886 - 1979), American musicologist, composer, and teacher;

(i) Constance Edson Seeger, violinist; first wife of Charles; 3 children

• Charles Seeger III, (1912-2002) astronomer
• John Seeger, (1914 - 2010), high school principal and co-founder of Camp Killooleet, a summer camp in Vermont
• Pete Seeger (b. 1919), one of the pre-eminent American folk and protest singers of the 20th century

• Mika Seeger American ceramic artist; daughter of Pete

• Tao Rodríguez-Seeger (b. 1972), a contemporary American folk musician; son of Mika

(ii) Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901 - 1953), a modernist composer and an American folk music specialist; second wife of Charles; 4 children

• Mike Seeger (1933 - 2009), American folk musician and folklorist

• Chris Arley Seeger (b. 1961), Technologist, Broadcast Engineer, Mixer/Editor; Married to Laura Vaccaro Seeger, a children's book author/illustrator

• Peggy Seeger (b. 1935), American folk singer; wife of English folk singer Ewan MacColl and stepmother of singer Kirsty MacColl

• Neil MacColl guitarist for David Gray; son of Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl.

• Jamie MacColl guitarist in Bombay Bicycle Club and Neil MacColl's son.

• Barbara Seeger, appeared on Animal Songs for Children (1992) with Mike Seeger and others
• Penny Seeger, married John Cohen

• Alan Seeger (1888 – 1916), American poet; brother of Charles
• Elizabeth Seeger (1889 - 1973), teacher at Dalton School and author; sister of Charles and Alan