Seeger

Seeger is the surname of various people, including an extended family of American musicians.

Seeger
Origin
Language(s)Middle English
Other names
Variant form(s)Seagar

Etymology

Seeger is one of the variant forms of Seagar, a surname of Middle English origin based on the given name Segar, which was formed from Old English ("sea") and gar ("spear").[1]

Seeger family of musicians

  • Charles Seeger (1886–1979), American musicologist, composer, and teacher
(i) Constance Edson Seeger, violinist; first wife of Charles; three children
  • Charles Seeger III, (1912–2002) astronomer
  • John Seeger, (1914–2010), high school principal and co-founder of Camp Killooleet, a summer camp in Vermont
  • Pete Seeger (1919–2014), one of the preeminent American folk and protest singers of the 20th century
() Toshi Seeger (1922–2013), filmmaker and environmental activist, wife of Pete Seeger; 4 children
  • Daniel Seeger[2]
  • Mika Seeger[2] American ceramic artist; daughter of Pete and Toshi Seeger
  • Tinya Seeger [2]
(ii) Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953), a modernist composer and an American folk music specialist; second wife of Charles; 4 children
  • Mike Seeger (1933–2009), American folk musician and folklorist
  • Chris Arley Seeger (born 1961), technologist, broadcast engineer, mixer-editor; married to Laura Vaccaro Seeger, a children's book author-illustrator
  • Barbara Seeger, appeared on Animal Folk Songs for Children (1992) with Mike Seeger and others
  • Penny Seeger, married John Cohen

Others

"Seeger" may also reference either of two legal cases involving the individuals above:

Schools

See also

Name variation

Object names

  • Seeger ring, alternative name for a circlip
  • The closest modern named object that corresponds to a seaspear is a Harpoon.


References

  1. Hanks, Patrick & Hodges, Flavia (1988) The Oxford Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press; p. 556
  2. Bart Barnes, "Pete Seeger, legendary folk singer, dies at 94", The Washington Post, January 28, 2014
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