Legendary American folk singer Peggy Seeger to play the Crane Bar

Peggy Seeger, a legend of American folk music, plays the Crane Bar on Friday, October14

Born in 1935, Peggy Seeger is known for her excellent renditions of Anglo-American folksongs and for her activist songwriting, especially in the field of feminism. Her best-known pieces are Gonna be an Engineer and The Ballad of Springhill.

Peggy is a half-sister to Pete, another icon of roots music, who played at Barack Obama’s inauguration concert. She had long personal and professional relationship with songwriter Ewan MacColl, who wrote The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face for her and with whom she had three children

After living for 35 years in England, she returned to the USA in 1994 and took up residence in Asheville, North Carolina. She moved to Boston in 2006 to take up a teaching job at Northeastern University, before moving back to England in 2010.

Peggy Seeger has made 22 solo recordings and has participated in over a hundred recordings with other artists. She records exclusively for Appleseed Recordings and her most recent project is The Home Trilogy. Each album contains one or two of her own compositions, the rest being traditional USA songs. The trilogy consists of Heading for Home and Love, Call Me Home and Bring Me Home.

She has published 149 of her songs in The Peggy Seeger Songbook, as well as a companion volume of Ewan MacColl’s songs, The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook.Doors 9pm, tickets €20/€17.50 members.