associated_acts years_active birth_place label name background birth_date instrument genre article_title birth_name occupation
pete kossoy sisters seeger , peggy seeger , joe hickerson , 1955 -- present new york city , new york folk-legacy records , prestige records tony saletan solo_singer 29 june 1931 vocals , guitar , banjo folk tony saletan
 anthony d. saletan musician , singer , folk dance caller/leader
tony saletan

tony saletan is an american folk singer and educator , who is responsible for the modern rediscovery of two of the genre 's best-known songs , `` michael row the boat ashore '' and `` kumbaya . ''
born and raised in new york city , he attended the walden school and received his bachelors and masters degrees from harvard university .
for a brief period during his childhood , saletan 's piano teacher was a young leonard bernstein .
he was involved as a teen in the henry wallace presidential campaign of 1948 , in which original music in the folk style was important .
saletan settled in the boston area , where for several years he appeared on educational television -lrb- wgbh -rrb- , taught music in the newton , massachusetts public schools and gave private guitar lessons .
he also became involved in folk dancing and calling of contra dances .
saletan has often taught at pinewoods camp , in plymouth , massachusetts .
later in life , saletan moved to tacoma , washington .
