For fans of folk music, there are few things in life that could be considered as memorable as coming home to find Pete Seeger sitting in your living room.
Singer/songwriter Caroline Doctorow grew up surrounded by creative luminaries who befriended her father, acclaimed American novelist E.L. Doctorow, but Seeger’s visit was out of the ordinary.
“There was some political cause my father was interested in, and Pete Seeger was spearheading it,” she said of her encounter with the legendary folk artist upon returning from high school one afternoon.
“There was always an interesting cast of characters passing through, whether they be writers or poets or musicians.”
Despite being separated by a generation from the contemporary artists of the ’60s folk revival, Doctorow began playing music largely because of their influence, a legacy of her parents’ own interest in the genre as both listeners and practitioners.