Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest, Episode 17: Roscoe Holcomb; Jean Redpath

1966

⚠ Unverified — hosted on the Internet Archive, not confirmed public domain. Opens on archive.org; nothing plays here directly.

For the seventeenth episode of Rainbow Quest, Pete Seeger hosts Appalachian musician Roscoe Holcomb and Scottish singer and folklorist Jean Redpath. Rainbow Quest was a television program produced for one series run in 1965 and 1966 by the Advertisers Broadcasting Company for UHF station WNJU-TV in the New York City market. Throughout the show’s 39-episode run, writer and curator of American folk songs Pete Seeger hosted many guest musicians. He also himself presented the histories of diverse American and international folk music traditions through spoken and musical segments.