Toshi Seeger

Toshi Seeger was born Toshi Aline Ohta on July 1, 1922, in Munich. Toshi, Pete, and their children went to Pete's hearings before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in Washington during the 1950s. Pete Seeger was cited for contempt of Congress in 1961, but his conviction was later overturned. ==Career==

Toshi Seeger helped to set up the Newport Folk Festival during the early 1960s. Her official credited title for the show was "Chief Cook and Bottle Washer." Toshi and Pete Seeger co-founded both the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and its related musical offshoot, The Great Hudson River Revival, also known as the "Clearwater Festival". She used the festival to rally public support for cleaning up the Hudson River. Under her direction, the festival also instituted a number of ideas which were not utilized at other music festivals during the 1970s and 1980s, providing sign language interpreters, disabled-accessible wheelchair access, and recycling programs. She recruited up-and-coming musical artists to perform at the festival through its planning committee, including Tracy Chapman, before they achieved popularity elsewhere. The Clearwater Festival now attracts more than 15,000 attendees to Croton Point Park each summer. Toshi Seeger executive produced the 2007 PBS documentary, Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, which won an Emmy Award. She was 85 years old at the time of the documentary's production. She served on numerous civic, environmental and artistic organizations, including the New York State Council on the Arts. ==Death==

Toshi Seeger died at her home in Beacon, New York on July 9, 2013, at age 91; ==References==