Peggy Seeger News

PEGGY Seeger ranks as one of the most important people to grace and shape the folk scene, and her brother Pete Seeger, who has just celebrated his 90th birthday, is seen as the father of the American folk revival.

FOLK legend Ewan MacColl once upset Salford council by writing the song Dirty Old Town.

Though folk music legend Pete Seeger has garnered much of the praise and attention directed toward the Seeger name, the musical talent of the Seeger clan is by no means concentrated in one man.

The first time Peggy Seeger performed on stage, she was a nervous wreck. "My legs were just jelly," she said, describing her middle school talent show debut.

U.S. folk icon Peggy Seeger is saying goodbye to North America once more as life in Britain beckons her.

Folk legend Peggy Seeger , sister toA also famousA Pete and Mike, will perform at the Phinney Neighborhood Center at 7:30 p.m. on Sept.

What's an American folk festival without a Seeger in it? OK, this year's version of the Fox Valley Folk Music and Storytelling Festival, which runs Sunday and Monday in Island Park in downtown Geneva, doesn't include the most famous folk-singing Seeger.

Folk musician Mike Seeger, a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, passed away on Friday, August 7 at the age of 75.

The Peggy Seeger Folk Song Collection was recently purchased by Special Collections and Archives division of Merrill-Cazier Library at Utah State University.