Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest, Episode 19: Sonia Malkine

1966 · music

Sonia Malkine specialized in songs from France, especially those from the Auvergne, a mountainous area in southern France. She sings "Baylero", a shepherd's song, accompanying herself on a 6-string lute with a simultaneous translation in subtitles on the screen. She also provides a French rendition of Pete Seeger's "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" and Seeger counters with a German translation. Rainbow Quest was a television program produced for one series run in 1965 and 1966 by the Advertisers Broadcasting Company for UHF station WNJU-TV in the New York City market. Throughout the show's 39-episode run, writer and curator of American folk songs Pete Seeger hosted many guest musicians. He also himself presented the histories of diverse American and international folk music traditions through spoken and musical segments.