It’s been a wonderful experience, really, growing up with him. I don’t know why some people are that close, we just shared a lot of music and a lot of time. I really liked Howard Johnson hotels cause they had swimming pools I remember (laughs). I can remember going on the road with him and my grandma, gosh, very early, like at four or five. I was his first grandchild and I showed some kind of interest in music at an early age. Tao Rodriguez-Seeger: Yeah… yeah we are very close.
Tao got his name from his grandmother’s initials, T.A.O.Īlison Notkin: When we met last month at the Beacon, New York Strawberry festival, I saw you and your granddad playing together. The past year has seen him touring with Pete Seeger and blues artist Guy Davis, raising money for various farming organizations, and also performing for President Obama’s inauguration in January 2009. Since then he has collaborated with Puerto Rican musicians Roy Brown and Tito Auger and released an alt-folk EP with his new solo project: the Tao Rodriguez-Seeger Band. Between 20, he released six albums with his contemporary folk band The Mammals. He began performing in his teens with grandfather Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie, and later formed a band, RIG, with Guthrie’s daughter (Woody Guthrie’s granddaughter) Sarah Lee. Rodriguez-Seeger sings in English and Spanish, composes, and plays guitar, banjo, and harmonica. Musician Tao Rodriguez Seeger is the eldest grandchild of Pete and Toshi (née Toshi-Aline Ohta) Seeger, and the son of Mika Seeger and Puerto Rican filmmaker Emilio Rodriguez.
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