The Folk Music of the British Isles and North America Concert Series postponed Artist Peggy Seeger's visit.
Born in 1935 into one of America’s leading musical families, Peggy is Pete Seeger’s half-sister and daughter of musicologist Charles Seeger and composer Ruth Crawford Seeger. She is one of the towering figures of the Folk Song Revival. Her first life partner was the English songwriter Ewan MacColl, who wrote for her his famous song First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. She is known for her peerless renditions of Anglo-American ballads and folk songs and for her activist songwriting, with a strong emphasis on gender politics. Her best-known pieces are Gonna Be an Engineer and The Ballad of Springhill. Seeger has made 23 solo albums and participated in over a hundred recordings with other artists. Her most recent albums are Everything Changes (Signet Music), Bring Me Home and Peggy Seeger Live (Appleseed Recordings). She has published 149 of her songs in The Peggy Seeger Songbook (Oak Publications, 1998) as well as a companion volume of Ewan MacColl’s songs, The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook (Oak Publications, 2001). For further information, see www.peggyseeger.com.
