Rainbow Quest

"Rainbow Quest" was a mid-1960s U.S. television series hosted by Pete Seeger, devoted to folk music. It was filmed in black and white and featured musicians playing in traditional American music genres such as old-time music, bluegrass and blues. The show's title is a variation on the lyrics of the folksong "Oh, Had I A Golden Thread". The program operated on a low budget, and Seeger and his fellow producers eventually had to fund the program from their own pockets, before the money ran out entirely and the program went off the air.

Among the guests featured on the program's 38 episodes were Donovan, Johnny Cash, June Carter, Elizabeth Cotten, Mississippi John Hurt, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Roscoe Holcomb, The Stanley Brothers, Doc Watson, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Tom Paxton, Judy Collins, Richard Fariña and Mimi Fariña, The Beers Family, and others.

Thirty-eight hourlong programs were recorded at new UHF station WNJU's Newark, New Jersey studios in 1965 and 1966, produced by Seeger and his wife Toshi with Sholom Rubinstein.

Many episodes can be seen on YouTube.com.

External links

* Summaries of Rainbow Quest's [http://www.peteseeger.net/videogra.htm 38 episodes]
* Mother Jones: The Riff Blog: [http://www.motherjones.com/riff_blog/archives/2007/12/6691_rembering_seege.html]