Born in 1935, Peggy is Pete Seeger's half-sister and Ruth Crawford Seeger's daughter; her first life partner was the English songwriter Ewan MacColl, who wrote First Time Ever I Saw Your Face for her and to whom she bore three children. She 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, which latter is rapidly becoming regarded as a traditional song. After living 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. She tours extensively in the USA and occasionally in the UK and Australia as a solo concert artist, singing and giving workshops. She has made 22 solo recordings and has participated in over a hundred recordings with other artists. Her 1998 CD, PERIOD PIECES: WOMEN'S SONGS FOR MEN AND WOMEN, received major attention from Billboard. She records exclusively for Appleseed Recordings. Her latest project is THE HOME TRILOGY, three albums in which each disc contains one or two songs of her own composition, the rest being traditional USA songs. HEADING FOR HOME and LOVE, CALL ME HOME are the first two volumes of this series. The third, BRING ME HOME, will be available in January 2008. Her 2007 recording project, THREE SCORE AND TEN, is a captivating 2-CD distillation of her 70th birthday concert in London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. She has also started a homemade series entitled TIMELY PRODUCTIONS, contemporary songs put out ... well, whenever she writes them. Timely #4, Crazy Quilt, comes out in January 2008. She has published 149 of her songs in The Peggy Seeger Songbook (Oak Publications, 1998) as well as a companion volume of Ewan MacColl's songs, The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook (Oak Publications, 2001). Her website, www.pegseeger.com, contains further information, a discography, details about ordering, an itinerary and interesting insights into her creative life. She is exclusively represented by Josh Dunson (708 386 1252;e.mail: RPMJosh@aol.com).

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