“She was the one who steered the boat she had the chart, she kept off the rocks,” he said in a 2012 interview with Persimmon Tree magazine. She played a crucial role in starting a music festival, known as the Great Hudson River Revival, to support these efforts. In 1966 she joined with her husband to create an environmental charity, using a sloop called Clearwater as a rallying point. In 2007 she was the executive producer of the PBS documentary “Pete Seeger: The Power of Song.” It won an Emmy. When he hosted “Rainbow Quest,” a television show devoted to folk music, in 19, she directed it - although her official credit was “Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.” Seeger helped produce thousands of her husband’s concerts. At tax time, when her shy singer couldn’t face how much money he earned - or worse, how much he gave the government for war - Toshi would place a blank page over the return when Pete signed it.” “When problems arose, she took the blame. As Pete’s producer, she made sure he was in the right place at the right time in the right mood, and that he knew where to go next. Seeger, David King Dunaway wrote: “Because Toshi was a woman, and because she disliked spotlights, she never received her due. In “How Can I Keep From Singing” (1981), a biography of Mr. “I’d get an idea and wouldn’t know how to make it work, and she’d figure out how to make it work,” he said. Seeger called his wife of almost 70 years “the brains of the family” and said it was she who figured out how to turn his artistic concepts into commercial successes. He fought McCarthyism, marched beside the Rev. Seeger, now 94, became famous for shaping modern folk music through prolific songwriting and peripatetic entertaining, and for his activism.

“Without Toshi, it couldn’t have happened,” Mr.

Seeger suggested performers and helped come up with the idea that no musician, whether a star or an unknown, would be paid more than $50. The music impresario George Wein recalled in an interview on Thursday that he and his wife, Joyce, had joined the Seegers in their log cabin overlooking the Hudson to plan the first Newport Folk Festival in 1959. Toshi Seeger, whose husband the folk singer Pete Seeger has credited for at least half his success - from helping to organize the first Newport Folk Festival to campaigning to clean the Hudson River - died on Tuesday at their home in Beacon, N.Y. Published in the New York Times: July 11, 2013 Toshi Seeger, Wife of Folk-Singing Legend, Dies at 91

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