Peggy Seeger

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Edi Stark meets the extraordinary folk legend, Peggy Seeger. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face was written for her by fellow folk revivalist and political activist Ewan McColl, and she explains why her version is the true rendition of the song made famous by Roberta Flack. Real life love for Ewan lasted for 35 years until he died. In this fascinating programme, Peggy, whose brother was the legendary Pete Seeger, describes an unconventional life growing up with musical parents in New York, coming to Britain, falling in love with Ewan and living with his cantankerous Scottish mother. She tells Edi how she was upended by falling in love with Irene Scott, now her wife. Peggy Seeger began singing at the age of two, plays piano, guitar, five-string banjo, auto harp, English concertina and Appalachian dulcimer. Now in her eighties, she is still writing and performing, and as you’ll hear in Stark Talk, she is a wonderful storyteller.