1960Nominee
Best Performance
Indian Summer
Mike Seeger
Actor · Director · Producer
New York City, New York
August 15, 1933
Biography
Mike Seeger was an American folk musician and folklorist. He was a distinctive singer and an accomplished musician who mainly played autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, harmonica, mandolin, dobro, jaw harp, and pan pipes. Seeger, a half-brother of Pete Seeger, produced more than 30 documentary recordings, and performed in more than 40 other recordings. He desired to make known the caretakers of culture that inspired and taught him. He was posthumously inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2018.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1987Nominee
Best Director
Talking Feet
2011Nominee
Best Performance
Give Me the Banjo
Career Highlights
2012Highlight
Best Performance
Banjo Tales
2014Highlight
Best Performance
The Winding Stream
Video
The Winding Stream
Hazel Dickens: It’s Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song
Homemade American Music