Peggy Seeger @ The Crane
By Kernan Andrews
THE LEGENDARY folk singer Peggy Seeger plays The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Friday October 14 at 9pm.
Peggy is considered one of America’s finest singers of traditional songs and she is best known for her musical collaborations with her late partner Ewan MacColl.
Between the ages of 12 and 35 she learned to play piano, guitar, five-string banjo, autoharp, Appalachian dulcimer and English concertina. She cut her first record at 18 and in her 20s she toured the Soviet Union, China, Poland, Belgium, France, Holland, and Scandinavia.
In 1959 she settled in London with Ewan MacColl, with whom she bore three children. The MacColl/Seeger duo was at the forefront of the British folksong revival for the ensuing three decades. Their innovative work incorporated folk techniques in songwriting and strengthened the ties between traditional and political music.
After Ewan’s death in 1989, she joined with Irene Pyper-Scott to form the singing duo No Spring Chickens. In 1995 she and BBC producer Jim Lloyd won the Sony Silver award for a six-part series of half-hour shows dedicated to Peggy’s life. In 1994 she moved back to the USA and today lives in Boston.
She has made 22 solo LPs and collaborated with other performers. She records exclusively for Appleseed Recordings and produces a new album every 18 months or so. She tours solo as a singer and lecturer in Britain, the USA, and Australia.
For more information and tickets contact The Crane on 091 - 587419 or see www.thecranebar.com