Peggy Seeger - Folk Singer, Songmaker, Activist
In Memory of Mike Seeger
Born in 1935, Peggy is Pete Seeger's half-sister and Ruth Crawford
Seeger's daughter; her first life partner was the English songwriter
Ewan MacColl, who wrote First Time Ever I Saw Your Face for her and
to whom she bore three children. She is known for her excellent renditions
of Anglo-American folksongs and for her activist songwriting, especially
in the field of feminism. Her best-known pieces are Gonna Be an
Engineer and The Ballad of Springhill, which latter is rapidly becoming regarded
as a traditional song.
The MacColl-Seeger work was seminal - its high point was the development of the revolutionary Radio Ballad form, a tapestry of field recordings of speech and sound effects melded with new songs in the folk idiom and complementary instrumental accompaniments. One of these Radio Ballads, Singing the Fishing, took the 1960 Italia Prize in the radio documentary section. These extraordinary radio programs have now been reissued in an 8-CD set by Topic Records.
Peggy has made 22 solo discs and has taken part in more than 100 recordings with other performers. She is considered to be among North America's finest female folksingers and took a leading role in the British folk music revival, not only as a singer and instrumentalist but also as a theorist and songwriter.
Booking Information
Peggy Seeger's exclusive representatives are:
| North America |
International |
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|---|---|---|
| Josh Dunson Real People's Music rpmjosh@aol.com 708-386-1252 www.realpeoplesmusic.com |
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Alan Bearman Alan Bearman Music bearman@btinternet.com + 44 (0)207 263 0425 +44 (0)7785 254172 www.alanbearmanmusic.co.uk |
EWAN MAC COLL'S JOURNEYMAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY HAS BEEN
RE-PUBLISHED AND IS NOW AVAILABLE.
This new edition of Journeyman, Ewan MacColl's vivid and entertaining autobiography, has been re-edited from the original manuscript, and includes a new introduction by Peggy Seeger, his partner for the last thirty years of his life. It was for Peggy that he wrote the unforgettable First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.
