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Rare chance to hear Peggy Seeger live
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.
She will be performing at the Hailsham Pavilion on November 14 (7.30pm), with Norma Waterson, Martin Carthy and Mike Waterson also on the bill.
Peggy came to the UK in 1955 and a year later married Ewan MacColl.
They were to spend the next three decades writing, recording and performing all over the world.
Ewan died in 1989 and Peggy returned to the States, where she now lives.
Her concerts, only too rare in the UK, unfold a cross section of traditional songs and finely crafted contemporary pieces; songs about ecology, politics, jobs, trade unions, feminism and much, much more.
Norma Waterson with sister Lal, who tragically died in 1998, and her brother Mike, founded the Watersons, our most influential vocal harmony group in the early sixties.
More recently she was voted Folk Artist of the Year and received universal acclaim when nominated for a Mercury Music Prize.
Mike Waterson has always been one of the great interpreters of English song, and Martin Carthy is widely regarded as one of the most influential guitarists and finest singers and interpreters of traditional music in the British Isles.
Twice voted Folk Artist of the Year, he was awarded the MBE in 1998 for his services to folk music.
Together these legendary figures are responsible for shaping creating, and inspiring much of the English and North American folk music of the last 50 years.
Tickets cost 19.50, call 841414.
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