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- Rants and Raves
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".... It was great to see you live, for the wonderful range of music, but also for the pleasure of seeing a woman who is so clearly at ease in her own skin. You were funny, smart, feisty, warm and wise, and managed to be very assertive without getting anyone offside, and very intelligent without making anyone feel stupid." - Siobhan McHugh, Sidney, Australia
- Coming Soon
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My new CD, Everything Changes, will be releaased in September 2014, followed by a tour with some of the musicians who were on it - including my sons, Neill and Calum. Hallelujah! I've wanted that for a long time.
- Folksploitation
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Peggy's groundbreaking album with Broadcaster.
Read the Reviews.
Listen and Buy.
- Itinerary
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Peggy's "I Just Can't Stay Away" Tour 2014Traveling with her grandson Alex MacColl, Peggy will be doing a driving tour from Boston and various points in the east coast to Chicago now being scheduled from March 13-25, 2014. Click for details.
- Temple Cowley Pools
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The battle for the Temple Cowley Pool in Oxford continues, thanks to the stamina and vision of the Campaign organisers. Our song and video are still current.
- A Song for Pete
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Peggy Seeger's Song for Pete Seeger's 94th Birthday
Video by Stig Vernon and Zoe Broughton
- One Plus One
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One Plus One
by Peggy Seeger
- Booking Information
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- About Peggy Seeger
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Born in 1935, Peggy's family connections are well-known in folk and classical music circles. She is Pete Seeger's half-sister, Ruth Crawford Seeger's daughter; partner to Ewan MacColl, who wrote First Time Ever I Saw Your Face for her and to whom she bore three children. Her best-known compositions are Gonna Be an Engineer and The Ballad of Springhill (the latter rapidly becoming regarded as a traditional song).
The MacColl-Seeger work was prodigious in its scope. From 1959 onward, they encouraged and set standards for the burgeoning UK folk revival; they trolled the USA & UK field recordings and anthologies for little-known traditional songs; they trained other singers and involved them in political-musical documentary theatre; they instigated the revolutionary Radio Ballad form. Their work was halted by Ewan's death in 1989.
Peggy has made 22 solo recordings and taken part in more than 100 more with other performers. A singer and multi-instrumentalist, she is considered to be one of North America's finest female folksingers.
- About Ewan MacColl
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EWAN MACCOLL'S JOURNEYMAN Autobiography
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.
THE ESSENTIAL EWAN MACCOLL SONGBOOK, sixty years of songmaking
The Ewan MacColl Songbook has been reissued. Sixty years of songmaking, 200 of his best songs, with extensive introductory material written by its compiler and annotator, Peggy Seeger.