Peggy Seeger

PEGGY SEEGER, member of the North American musical Seeger family, is a singer of traditional Anglo-American songs and an activist songmaker. Considered to be one of N. America's finest revival singers of traditional songs, Peggy has also written music for films, television and radio. She has collaborated on books of folksongs with Edith Fowke, Alan Lomax and Ewan MacColl. She has made 22 solo LPs and collaborated with other performers (Tom Paley, Mike Seeger, Guy Carawan, Ewan MacColl) on more records than she can remember. In the mid-1970s she began to concentrate on feminist and ecological issues. Her best-known songs are "The Ballad of Springhill" and "I'm Gonna Be an Engineer." She plays six instruments: piano, guitar, 5-string banjo, Appalachian dulcimer, autoharp and English concertina. Peggy now lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and tours regularly worldwide.

"For me, the Peggy Seeger concert was a trip to the past -- so many coffee houses, hootenannies, and sing-alongs in the '50s and '60s, so much outrage, so much hope, so many dreams. It was a reminder of our heritage of ballads and story songs -- of our country and its roots in the Old World."
- Lucy V. Parker

"For decades, Seeger has been one of the most authoritative voices in American and English folk...While she is acknowledged as an esteemed interpreter of traditional material and a gifted instrumentalist, she is perhaps best known for her observant and caustic original songs about women."
- Chris Morris, Billboard

Mar. 26 (Fri), 2010
8:00 pm

Brink Lounge
701 E. Washington
Suite 105
Madison, WI [MAP]

$16 in advance
$18 day of show

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