Thank you so much for posting Rainbow Quest! I'm thoroughly enjoying these gems. I knew the show had existed, but except for seeing a few excerpts of individual songs over the years, I hadn't seen any full episodes. This is a real treasure! I noticed two episodes, #25 & #28 are missing. Are you still going to add them or are they lost? I'm stunned that all these programs that you DID post were still in existence! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

you are doing a service to humanity by uploading to these 2 channels. you are a hero mr Russ

Never saw this dance flavored episode before! I wonder whether Pete ever included squaredancers, New England contradancers or Appalachian flatfooters on the program? Brother Mike Seeger and dance-ethnographer Ruth Pershing did their "Talking Feet" flatfooting & clogging documentary more than a decade later... now at Smithsonian folkways.

Thank you for putting these episodes of Rainbow Quest on KZfaq. I didn't know about the existence of Rainbow Quest until one of my friends and partners-in-crime at the local Irish Music Sessions told me about them. We meet regularly every Sunday afternoon and I play piano at the local Sessions. Sometimes I play either bass or piano on Sunday morning with the band at my church. My mother was a music teacher who began teaching me how to play the piano when I was six. Besides the Irish Sessions and the church services, I also play my acoustic string bass with a local old time folk music group and for the regular dances of a local contra dance society. My mother and the rest of her family weren't quite sure what to think of Seeger and were suspicious of him because he was so "liberal" politically, socially, and economically. However, my father was to the left hand side of the Democrats politically, socially, and economically. He was the parent who introduced me to Seeger's music and encouraged me to listen to him. Although my father's favorite de-composer was Ludwig von Beethoven, my father also like to listen to Jimmie Rodgers--The Singing Brakeman--as well as Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. No my father was not a musician.