Peggy Seeger

Peggy Seeger is totally unique. Her concerts are informative, entertaining and skillful, full of sly humour.  Audience participation in choruses is routine. Trained in both classical and folk music, her experience spans 55 years of performing, travel and songwriting.  Sister of Pete Seeger (the great-grandfather of USA folk revival) and partner of the late Ewan MacColl, theorist and practitioner of UK folk revival), she has carved a special niche for herself in both these countries. She’ll sing an unaccompanied traditional ballad, follow it with a tall tale about a circus high-diver, then launch into a topical song about drugs, war, hormones, politicians, unions, women, love or ecology. A multi-instrumentalist (piano, guitar, 5-string banjo, autoharp, English concertina and Appalachian dulcimer), she is probably best known for her feminist songs (such as Gonna Be an Engineer) and for The Ballad of Springhill, which latter is rapidly becoming regarded as a traditional song. A native North American, she made her home in England with MacColl for 35 years. She returned to the USA for sixteen years but has returned permanently to the UK where her 3 children and 9 grandchildren live.
‘From the moment she stepped on stage, Peggy held every person in that packed auditorium spellbound’ Tradition Magazine