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
Update 27 August: We heard recently that Peggy still doesn’t expect to be well enough to travel for this even in October. It’s possible that the Arts Centre will be included in a tour in 2025 that Peggy is planning with her two sons. We’ll be in touch with existing ticket holders very soon to let them know what’s happening, as well as announcing here of course.
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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
See Access, Tickets & Finding Us for more about why there are three ticket prices, plus other useful info about coming to events at Ashburton Arts Centre. Level access from street.