Name: Peggy Seeger in Conversation with Ken Tonge
Start: 2024-09-17T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-09-17T22:00:00+01:00
Location: Seventeen Nineteen - Holy Trinity Church

Join Peggy and Ken while they take a look back at her 60 year career and go back to her roots in the folk and acoustic clubs across the UK.
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Peggy Seeger ‘In Conversation’ with Ken Tonge

Peggy Seeger is a totally unique singer, songwriter and performer who has carved a special place in the folk revival of both the UK and the USA. Now in her late 80s, her light burns as brightly as ever. Peggy will be talking about her long career in music spanning over 60 years. Born into ‘folk music royalty’ (Pete Seeger was her half-brother), she moved to England in her early 20s where she met & fell in love with singer and songwriter Ewan MacColl. As Ewan’s life partner and muse, she was the inspiration for MacColl’s classic love song ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’. Peggy is a woman who has consistently followed her own path with passion and vigour and her indomitable spirit is irrepressible.

“Peggy Seeger may be folk royalty … but there’s still plenty of the mischievous reprobate – not to mention the untamed rebel – about her.” The Guardian

“Peggy Seeger’s life is the stuff of a rip-roaring blockbuster” Mojo Magazine