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Nick Seeger is a singer / songwriter and recording artist who plays guitar, banjo, and Jew’s harp, currently living in Hopewell Junction, NY, USA. His songs run the gamut from old to new, folk to blues with some ragtime in between. Nick has recorded four albums, one of which is a children's recording. He loves sailing.
In the 1980s he was busy touring, solo or with band. USA, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, USSR. After his (first) musical career, Nick took a job at IBM to pay for his daughter’s MS medical bills, and went back to college to graduate Cum Laude in Computer Science and Mathematics (1999). His daughter is an adult now and Nick has gone back to professional music making.
Nick is the grandson of violinist Constance DeClyvver Edson (1886-1975) and ethnomusicologist / composer / teacher Charles Louis Seeger (1886-1978). Nick’s father moved the family to Netherlands in the early 1950s to avoid having his personal world turned upside down and inside out by Senator Joseph McCarthy and his band of communist witch hunters. Nick was brought up in Leiden, Netherlands, and moved back to the USA in 1966. Yes, Nick is a member of that musical Seeger family, and like all of them he has never been afraid to speak openly about politics or environment (probably the reason why he lost his job at IBM, which he didn’t mind much as it gave him time to go sailing).
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