Downtown Community School

One such of these might come from episode 30 with the Vietnamese singer and guitar player, Pham Duy, along with friends Steve Addis and Bill Crowfoot.

Seeger had taught Bill Crowfoot at the Downtown Community School when Pete had been a music teacher there for a time in the early '50s, and it was Crowfoot and Addis, who knew Vietnamese and had spent time singing in Vietnam under the oversight of the US State Department, who introduced Pete to Pham Duy, who Pete did not actually meet or interact with until the day of the taping of the episode.

Duy chats with Pete about Duy's musical background and explains that, to Pete's somewhat surprise, that the guitar had become a very popular instrument in Vietnam.

One notable number was one Duy, Addis, and Crowfoot all performed together called The Rice Planting Song.

I don't want your Rolls-Royce, mister.

I don't want your fancy house

In addition to all the episodes with guests, Pete also hosts some unique episodes, such as tributes to Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie, each getting their own respective episode, and an episode with students from the Downtown Community School in Manhattan showing some urban folk traditions, a connection most likely facilitated through Norman Studer Pete also did an episode exclusively focusing on political songs in history, much of which is Pete talking broadly and philosophically, something I feel as if he always did very well, but would always bring back the abstract ideas to a song he would then perform.

But in sum, I believe that Rainbow Quest does very much speak for itself, although there are some points that I think have yet to be made.