Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest, Episode 1: The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem; Tom Paxton

1965 · music

For the first episode of Rainbow Quest, Pete Seeger hosts the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, followed by Tom Paxton. 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.