“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 'Pete Seeger: The Storm King Stories, Narratives, Poems.' has been nominated for a 2014 Grammy Award for best audio book.Toshi Seeger, Wife of Folk-Singing Legend, Dies at 91.Grammy Award for best children's album of 2010 for his record 'Tomorrow's Children,Pete Seeger and the Rivertown Kids and Friends' (2010).

The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2009).

The Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award for his commitment to peace and social justice as a musician, songwriter, activist, and environmentalist that spans over sixty years.

A proposal to name the Walkway Over the Hudson in his honor.

Grammy Award for best traditional album of 2008 for his record 'At 89' (2008).

The Mid-Hudson Civic Center Hall of Fame (2008).

The Schneider Family Book Award for his children's picture book 'The Deaf Musicians.' (2007).The Felix Varela Medal, Cuba's highest honor for 'his humanistic and artistic work in defense of the environment and against racism' (1999).Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album of 1996 for his record 'Pete' (1997).Induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1996).'The James Smithson Bicentennial Medal' (1996).The National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts (1994).The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1993).

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