Date/Time
Saturday 12 October 2024
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Categories Music
This was originally scheduled for 25 April, 2024 during our Tinners Moon Festival
Book here now: £15 full price • £10 or £7 if you prefer – please pay what you can*
An intimate conversation with a unique artist who has carved a special place in the folk pantheon of both the UK and the USA.
Now in her late 80s, Peggy’s light burns as brightly as ever. A multi-instrumentalist (piano, guitar, 5-string banjo, autoharp, English concertina and Appalachian dulcimer), she is lauded for her feminist and political songs and her co-creation of The Radio Ballads. She has made 24 solo recordings and participated in over a hundred more.
This year, Peggy was part of a new orchestral recording of her late husband Pete Seeger’s song Dirty Old Town, 75 years after it was written about his home town of Salford. It features in this Radio 4 programme broadcast on 6 July 2024: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0020xjr.
“Peggy Seeger’s life is the stuff of a rip-roaring blockbuster…an illuminating, witty, revelatory and unflinchingly candid account, presented in vivid vignettes and nonchalant anecdotes, often funny, sometimes shocking” Mojo Magazine
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