PETE SEEGER (Ballad Singer) was born in New York twenty-eight years ago and raised in New England. The "Dark of the Moon" marks his first professional stage appearance although he has been singing and picking a banjo long enough to acquire a reputation as one of America's foremost folk singers. He has been heard on various radio shows including the U. S. Steel Show and the CBS School of the Air and has recorded a dozen or more albums of American folk music. Although his parents were both trained musicians he admits he was "never one for practicing" and does not consider himself a trained singer. During the depression, when jobs were scarce, he travelled around the country singing at churches, schools and on street corners for whatever he could earn. Along the way he picked up a lot of good old American folk songs. During his three and a half years in the army he took along his banjo (an old-fashioned five-stringer seldom seen anymore) and continued singing for the fun of it. Since his discharge he has helped form an organization called "People's Songs," which now has several thousand members across the country and seeks to promote all types of folk music including American tunes, songs of other countries and topical songs right out of the headlines. He says he would rather travel around the country singing than anything he knows of.