# Peggy Seeger
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Margaret "Peggy" Seeger (born June 17, 1935) is an American folksinger. She is also well known in Britain, where she has lived for more than 30 years, and was married to the singer and songwriter Ewan MacColl until his death in 1989.
== First American period ==
Seeger's father was Charles Seeger (1886–1979), an important folklorist and musicologist; her mother was Seeger's second wife, Ruth Porter Crawford (1901–1953), a modernist composer who was the first woman to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship.
How I Long for Peace
Pastures of Plenty is the Wednesday edition of KBOO’s weekday morning Folk
Strip, from 5:30 till 7:00. The highlight for me of this April 29th show is
at the end: How I Long For Peace, however futile that may seem, written and
performed by Peggy Seeger about five years...
Scarborough Fair: A Love Song Built from Impossible Tasks
Scarborough Fair sounds delicate, but it runs on impossible demands.
Most people know it as a beautiful folk song: herbs, harmony, and an air of medieval calm. Underneath that surface, though, sits a much older structure. The song belongs to the family of The Elfin Knight, where courtship takes the…
Gentle, Angry Women
When I got back to the farm last night there appeared to be a large triangular black figure with two points of burning flame on its head in the stone circle, and someone running from stone to stone. It was late. It had been a long day. I thought, do I go up and see what’s what? And then I thought, …
Episode 89: FOLK SONG (AND BAGPUSS TOO!)
Folk song holds a vital place within everybody's culture. From political songs to work songs, lyrics record our feelings, our traditions and, of course, our stories across the ages. In the episode of the podcast, folk singers and writers Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner talk about their thoughts on th…
Inkstuds Mixtape Vol 8 Billy Mavreas
Billy Mavreas is one Canada’s comic scene gems. He is known for being one of the nicest men, who goes out of his way to connect people and help foster a great community spirit through his Galerie Monastiraki.
Johnny O’Braides-Lee - Alan Lomax, w Ewan MacCol, Peggy Seeger 1:39
Old Brown Shoe …
The Property Stays, but the People are Gone
Welcome to Season 2 Episode 12. We have discussed so many different genres of music over all our episodes, and now we enter the world of folk and country music from both sides of the Atlantic, and we have so much to discuss, that this time there are 11 songs on the list.
Country superstar John Denv…
Free Thinking - Peggy Seeger
Philip Dodd talks to one of the icons of what used to be called the counter-culture, Peggy Seeger. Her voice and career are emblematic of a life lived against the establishment grain.
Official Folk Albums Chart Show—4th August 2026
On this month’s show, Kellie While joins Matthew Bannister to launch a call for entries for the 2026 Folk Album of the Year Award. There are also songs old and new from Emily Portman, Peggy Seeger, Natalie Wildgoose, Phil Odgers and John Kettle, Fink, Sam Carter and Damien Dempsey. Lucy Shields has…
Episode 2588: 26-35 Celebrating the Workers
It's easy to forget that the end-of-summer holiday is more than a time for picnics and last swims. For this edition of the Magazine, we'll celebrate those who labor, and those who fight for the rights of everyone. We'll hear John McCutcheon, Malvina Reynolds, the New Lost City Ramblers, and Peggy S…
Episode 155 - Peggy Seeger
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Peggy Seeger, one of the most influential figures in folk music on both sides of the Atlantic, a singer, songwriter, musician, feminist and activist whose extraordinary life has been intertwined with some of the biggest names in folk music. Born into a remark…
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