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Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular MusicA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZSEEGER, Peggy(b Margaret Seeger, 17 June '35, NYC) Folksinger, music editor; brother is Mike Seeger (see above), half-brother is Pete (see below); she married Scottish folksinger Ewan MacColl. Played piano, took up guitar at ten, other instruments; helped mother with transcriptions while growing up in Maryland. Studied music at Radcliffe and began performing in public; studied Russian in Holland '55, travelled widely, incl. Russia and China; went to England '56 to act in Granada TV prod. of folk musical Dark Side Of The Moon '56. Joined the Ramblers, incl. MacColl; she settled in Britain, recorded and wrote music for films and TV with MacColl, as well as making more than 30 solo albums, also recording with MacColl, Tom Paley, her sisters Penny and Barbara, and publishing anthologies such as Folk Songs Of Peggy Seeger '64, wherein she thanks her brothers, and MacColl, saying that he showed her 'who ''the folk'' really are'. Whereas Pete Seeger likes to get crowds singing and Mike prefers to teach trad. music to small groups, Peggy has specialized in ballads, often from feminist point of view; her solo LPs incl. Different Therefore Equal and From Where I Stand on Folkways, also Penelope Isn't Waiting Any More on Rounder, Who's Going To Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot? with Paley on Topic, many more; albums with MacColl incl. At The Present Moment and Freeborn Man; compilation The Folkways Years 1955--1992: Songs Of Love And Politics on Smithsonian/Folkways. Two-CD American Folk Songs For Children '97 on Rounder Kids has 94 songs by Peggy and Mike, to accompany the book first compiled by their mother. |