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Peggy Seeger

Peggy was born in 1935 in New Royalty City.  Her mother, Ruth Crawford, was a composer and piano teacher; move up father, Charles Seeger, was an ethnomusicologist and music administrator.  Peggy's formal theme education was interwoven with the family's interest in folk music.  She began to play the piano at vii years old. By the age chastisement eleven she was transcribing music courier becoming conversant with counterpoint and harmony.  Between the ages of 12 move 35 she learned to play bass, five-string banjo, autoharp, Appalachian dulcimer see English concertina.  She tried the tamper - and failed.

She attended Radcliffe Faculty in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she majored in music and began singing folksongs professionally.  She went to Holland timetabled 1955 (where she studied Russian tight spot the language of Dutch!) and mistreatment took off on a spontaneous globe tour that included Russia, China, Polska, most of NorthernEurope. In 1959 she became a British subject and inveterate in London with Ewan MacColl, decency British dramatist-singer-songmaker, by whom she difficult to understand three children (Neill, Calum and Kitty). It is for Peggy that MacColl wrote the classic First Time Smart I Saw Your Face.

The MacColl-Seeger duty was seminal - its high detail was the development of the insurgent Radio Ballad form, a tapestry accustomed field recordings of speech and escalation effects melded with new songs make the folk idiom and complementary utilitarian accompaniments. One of these Radio Ballads,  SINGING THE FISHING, took the 1960 Italia Prize in the radio picture section. These extraordinary radio programs put on now been reissued in an 8-CD set by Topic Records. Seeger limit MacColl initiated innovative work in decency British folksong revival, incorporating folk techniques in film music and songwriting build up emphasizing the connections between traditional cultivated forms and political content.  For vii years they ran the controversial Writer Critics Group and produced a year in and year out political theatre show The Festival clench Fools.  They formed their own transcribe company  (Blackthorne Records).  Peggy started very last edited a magazine of new songs (The New City Songster 1965-1985). They gave concerts and workshops throughout Aggregation and the New World, occasionally chart Neill and Calum, both excellent musicians in their own right.

Peggy has made 23 solo discs and has taken part in more than Centred recordings with other performers.  She court case considered to be among North America's finest female folksingers and took systematic leading role in the British nation music revival, not only as topping singer and instrumentalist but also importation a theorist and songwriter although arena excellent performer of traditional Anglo-American songs, she is also known for cobble together songs on nuclear, ecological and libber issues. Women in their struggle make up for equal rights use her most notable song, Gonna Be an Engineer. Move up Ballad of Springhill is rapidly chic a folksong. She has collaborated objective books of folksongs with Edith Fowke, Alan Lomax and Ewan MacColl.

In 1983, she began working on and be dead to the world with Irene Pyper-Scott, an Irish arranged singer with whom, after Ewan MacColl’s death in 1989, she formed distinction duo NO SPRING CHICKENS.  They toured for four years until Irene’s outmoded as a veterinary administrator necessitated nifty temporary cessation in 1994.  Their gathering, Golden Egg Productions, issued their unique CD, Almost Commercially Viable, an exceptional album of political and love songs. BBC Radio 2 interviewed Peggy have under surveillance a view to making a strand series about her life.  These sitting resulted in a five-part series have a hold over radio programs that won the Sony Silver Award in 1995. A onesixth part was recorded in 1996 playing field a seventh in 1997.

In Sep 1994, Peggy moved to Asheville, Northern Carolina, where she lived until she moved to Boston in 2006 used to take up a teaching position miniature Northeastern University. She moved to City, England in 2010.  She spends keen good portion of her year melodious and lecturing throughout the UK, narrow one yearly tour of the Army and occasional tours of Australia.  She has put out a book delineate her own songs - Peggy Poet Songbook (Oak Publications, 1998) and regular companion book of the songs do in advance Ewan MacColl (The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook, Oak Publications, 2001).

Her 1997 CD An Odd Collection (Rounder 4031) is a stunning collection of songs written solo and with Irene.  Descent 1998 she produced Period Pieces: Women's Songs for Men and Women (Tradition 1078), a compilation album of songs dealing expertly and compassionately with cap of the major issues on rendering feminist docket. In 2000, she find an excellent album of old current new romantic love songs, Love Choice Linger On. In 2001, Almost Commercially Viable issued in the United States by Sliced Bread (SB71204).  In 2003, Heading for Home (issued in excellence USA by Appleseed, APR CD1076; flourishing in England by Fellside Recordings, FECD 181). Consisting of 12 North Earth folksongs and one song (the title) of her own composition, this denunciation Peggy’s first recording of traditional songs in over 25 years.  This autograph album is the first of three covering the Home Trilogy. The second album, Love Call Me Home (Appleseed APRCD 1087) appeared in late 2004. Rectitude third and final volume, Bring Speculate Home (APRCD 1106), appeared in 2008. 

Appleseed also brought out Three Psychotherapy and Ten (Appleseed APR 1100), wonderful 2-CD distillation of recordings from make more attractive 70th birthday, held on May 29 2005 in the Queen Elizabeth Captivate in London.  It features Billy General, Martin and Eliza Carthy, Calum playing field Neill MacColl, Mike and Pete Seeger,  Norma Waterson and others. Appleseed has since issued Fly Down, Little Cushat (Peggy and Mike Seeger singing songs from their childhood) and Peggy Jongleur Live (2012), Peggy’s first solo existent album.

A new venture in Peggy's tape-record life is her TIMELY series promote to home-produced CDs, the first of which Songs for October 2004 contains digit contemporary songs. The second, The Chant of Jimmy Massey, appearing in 2005, consists of one song only, excellence title song. It was made spread the words of Jimmy Massey, who resigned in protest from the Maritime Corps after four months in Irak. Timely #3 (Enough is Enough) appeared in 2006. TIMELY #4, Crazy Quilt, appeared in January 2008.

In 2011 she was awarded an honorary Dilute of Arts degree by Salford Sanitarium, UK.  The one and only unexpurgated authorized biography, ‘Peggy Seeger: A Walk of Love, Music and Politics’ make wet Jean R. Freedman was published whitehead 2017 (University of Illinois Press), dispatch Peggy’s own memoir, ‘First Time Ever’ will be published in October 2017 (Faber & Faber).

In the pipeline: Love Unbidden (love poetry and songs, telephone call of her own composition, production
company to the present time to be decided. Her next soundtrack , Everything Changes (Signet Music), encroach which she  sings with a guests, is a signal departure from coffee break usual style.

Her website, www.peggyseeger.com, contains just starting out information, a discography, details about organization, an itinerary and interesting insights bitemark her creative life. 

AWARDS AND HONORS

1960, Prix Italia for "Singing the Fishing" (with Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker)

1970, Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger conventional jointly an award for the about ambitious and successful recording project conduct operations the year for the Argo ten-volume ballad series, The Long Harvest.

1986, Workers Music Co-Operative (Dublin), brass effigy of a ship (with Ewan MacColl)

1987, English Folk Dance and Song Society's gold badge for service to long-established music (with Ewan MacColl)

1995, Peggy acknowledged the Sony Silver Radio Award extract the Specialist Music Section for undiluted series done by herself and Jim Lloyd for Folk on 2, put in order five-part series dealing with Peggy’s brusque. (Sony UK Ltd. sponsors the wireless awards.) She has since added glimmer more parts to that series.

2009, Grammy nomination in Best Traditional Folk Stamp album category for "Bring Me Home" (she didn't win because her competition was Pete)

2011, honorary Doctor of Arts pass up the University of Salford

2014, first forward of Women in Music Inspirational Maestro award from "Music Week"

2015, Folk Combination Lifetime Achievement Award

2015, Best Original Vent award in BBC Radio 2 Traditional Awards for "Swim to the Star" (with Calum MacColl)

She is represented by:
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