The performance included two of Guthrie's original verses to the song that have often been omitted one verse mentions "private property" and the other refers to a depression era relief office. They sang Woody Guthrie's famous song " This Land Is Your Land" during the finale, before an audience estimated at 400,000. On January 18, 2009, Seeger performed with his grandfather Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen and a youth chorus at the We Are One Inaugural Celebration of President Barack Obama. Seeger had a radio show "The Tao of Tao" on WAMC. In 2006 he recorded an album, ¡Que vaya bien!, with Puerto Rican folk singers Roy Brown and Tito Auger of the Puerto Rican rock band Fiel a la vega and he formed the Anarchist Orchestra (now known as the Tao Rodriguez-Seeger band) with Jacob Silver, also of the Mammals, Laura Cortese and Robin McMillan. In 2001, he founded The Mammals with Michael Merenda and Ruth Ungar. In 1999 he was a member of the band RIG, with Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion. In 1986, Rodríguez-Seeger started performing with his grandfather, Pete Seeger. After his father was invited by the Sandinistas to document the nation's civil war, Seeger spent nine years of his childhood in Nicaragua. Rodríguez-Seeger is the son of Mika Seeger and Emilio Rodríguez, a Puerto Rican filmmaker. He plays banjo, guitar, harmonica and sings in English and Spanish. A founder of The Mammals, he is the grandson of folk musician Pete Seeger.
Tao Rodríguez-Seeger (born 1972) is an American contemporary folk musician.
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