Reviews & HonorsReviews"In brushing the dust of time from American folk music, Mike Seeger illuminates the roots of contemporary music and champions their strength" Dan Bottstein, Billboard "Clean and crisp as any acoustic music now being played . . . Here is an American artist standing forth, voice 'well trained', in narratives, in fun, in irony, himself branch and root of the entwined true vine." Jon Pankake, Rolling Stone "His instrumental technique borders on the astonishing. He switches easily from guitar to banjo to autoharp to fiddle to mouth harp, singing and foot stomping all the while. Just playing with authenticity and style is a trick in itself, but Seeger does it with class and jovial spirit." Philip Elwood, San Francisco Examiner Honors, Awards, Grants, Etc.Heritage Award, 2004 Uncle Dave Macon Days Festival, Murfreesboro, TN The Society for American Music’s Honorary Membership Award, 2003 Master Music Maker award conferred by The Swannanoa Gathering and Warren Wilson College, 2003 Artist in Residence, College of William and Mary, Spring 2003 Special Recognition by Rockbridge Mountain Music and Dance Festival, 2001 The Rex Foundation's 1995 Ralph J. Gleason Award Guggenheim Fellow, 1984 Smithsonian Institution Visiting Scholar Research Position, 1983 National Endowment for the Arts Grantee, 1975, 1982, 1984, and 1987 Founding member of New Lost City Ramblers, 1958-present Director: American Old Time Music Festival, 1975-78; Member, Board of Directors: Newport Folk Festival, 1963-67; Special consultant: Smithsonian, Newport, National, Mariposa and other
major folk festivals. Guest Lecturer, English Department, California State University, Fresno, 1974 First Prize, Banjo Category, Old Fiddlers Convention, Galax, Virginia, 1958 Last updated: July 27, 2004 |