Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest, Episode 29: Theodore Bikel and Rashid Hussein
1966
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Israeli and Arabic music and poetry are presented in their original languages and in translation. Pete Seeger demonstrates how to make a shepherd's flute out of bamboo. Seeger on banjo and Bikel on guitar join together on the Israeli song popularized in the United States by the Weavers, "Tzena, Tzena." 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.