Backstage interview with folk legend,
Peggy Seeger
‘Peggy Seeger ranks as one of the most important people who ever graced and shaped British folk’ Roots Magazine
Watch folk legend, Peggy Seeger, talk about how she sees folk music in today’s world, her musical influences; from her parents input to that of her life journey, her part in the revival of folk and how she describes her own music.
MORE ABOUT PEGGY:
With her partner, Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger was at the forefront of the British folksong revival from the 60s onward. Their innovative work strengthened the ties between traditional and political music.
The development of the revolutionary Radio Ballads, created for the BBC, were a turning point in her life: this work was seminal - a tapestry of field recordings of speech and sound effects melded with new songs in the folk idiom and complementary instrumental accompaniments.
Seeger is considered to be among North America’s finest female folk singers and took a leading role in the British folk music revival.
