Folk legend Peggy Seeger comes to The Brindley in Runcorn

Nov 4 2010 Flintshire Chronicle

FOLK music royalty is coming to town when Peggy Seeger plays The Brindley in Runcorn on Wednesday, November 10 at 8pm.

Born in 1935, Peggy is Pete Seeger’s half-sister and Ruth Crawford Seeger’s daughter.

Her life partner was the English songwriter Ewan MacColl, who wrote First Time Ever I Saw Your Face for her and to whom she bore three children.

Now she is sometimes thought of as the mother of Neill and Calum MacColl but is very much her own woman.

She is probably best known for her feminist song Gonna Be an Engineer and for The Ballad of Springhill, which is rapidly becoming regarded as a traditional song.

After living 35 years in England, she returned to the USA in 1994 and after living in Asheville, North Carolina, for 10 years, she now resides in Boston.

She now tours extensively in the USA as a solo concert artist, singing and giving workshops.

Tickets for the show priced £14, £12 from The Brindley box office on 0151 907 8360 or you can book online at www.thebrindley.org.uk.