Folk Legend Peggy Seeger on her new album First Farewell

The word legend is used rather too often in music, but by any standard Peggy Seeger’s long career as a folk musician and social activist qualifies her for that title.

From being kicked out of her native America for having the audacity to visit Soviet Russia in the McCarthyite 1950s to recording a series of hugely influential albums with her husband Ewan MacColl she has been instrumental in keeping folk music alive in her adopted land. Her solo career has seen her champion progressive causes from Greenham Common to mankind’s destruction of our environment.

Now she’s back aged 85 with a critically acclaimed new album, First Farewell, that is a very much a family affair. Paul Clarke spoke to Peggy about how this record came about and what it was like working with her children.

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