At 89

At 89 is a studio album by Pete Seeger, released on September 30, 2008, via Appleseed Records. In 2008, the album earned Seeger the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.

Composition
The album features a blend of instrumental and vocal songs, interspersed with spoken word segments. Several tracks were recorded at the Howland Center in Beacon, NY with a large group of people working in community.

"Song of the World's Last Whale" is an anti-whaling song composed by Seeger in 1970 after he listened to the "whale song" discovered by Roger Payne. He gave its rights to the Whale Fund, an auxiliary of the New York Zoological Society which is concerned with whale conservation. Despite playing the song live, he did not record it officially until At 89.

Performers

 * Sue Altkin – choir, chorus, vocals
 * David Bernz – banjo, choir, chorus, guitar, guitar (12-string), vocals
 * Robert Cagianese – additional violin ("Alleluya")
 * Karen Cashin - chorus
 * Sonya Cohen – vocals ("When I was most Beautiful")
 * Jonathan Dickau – choir, chorus, engineer, mixing, vocals
 * Angela Dourdis - chorus
 * James Durst – choir, chorus, guitar ("Little Fat Baby"), vocals, ("Little Fat Baby, and "We Will Love or We Will Perish")
 * Alison Hartwell - chorus
 * Travis Jeffrey – vocals ("It's a long haul")
 * Caroline Kruzansky - chorus, vocals ("Or Else!")
 * Lisa McVey - chorus
 * Sara Milonovich – violin
 * Jenny Murphy - chorus
 * Mark Murphy – bass, choir, chorus, vocals
 * Melissa Ohrquist - chorus
 * Perry Robinson – clarinet
 * Martha Sandefer – choir, chorus, vocals ("Bach at Treblinka," "Little Fat Baby," and "We Will Love or We Will Perish")
 * Pete Seeger – banjo, choir, chorus, guitar (12-string), guitar (nylon string), Native American flute, spoken word, vocals
 * Laurie Siegel – choir, chorus, vocals
 * Dave Tarlo - chorus, vocals ("Now We Sit us Down," and "We Will Love or We Will Perish")
 * Bruce K. Taylor – choir, chorus, vocals
 * Connie Taylor – choir, chorus, vocals
 * Sarah Underhill - chorus
 * The Walkabout Chorus - vocals ("Tzena, Tzena, Tzena," "If this World Survives")

Songwriting/Arranging

 * Johann Sebastian Bach – composer
 * David Bernz – arranger, composer, lyricist
 * Travis Jeffrey – composer, lyricist
 * Gordon Jenkins – composer, lyricist
 * Alan Lomax – arranger, collection
 * John A. Lomax – arranger, collection
 * Pete Seeger - arranger, composer, lyricist
 * Malvina Reynolds – composer, lyricist
 * Lorre Wyatt – composer, lyricist

Production

 * David Bernz – engineer, photography, producer
 * Jonathan Dickau – engineer, mixing
 * Christina Galbiati – graphic design
 * David Glasser – mastering
 * Judy Jacobs – photography
 * Jim Musselman – executive producer, liner notes
 * Pete Seeger – producer