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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 has eight grandchildren).
     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 moved back to England (Oxford) in 2010. She tours extensively in the UK and occasionally in the USA 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. 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, was published 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. FLY DOWN LITTLE BIRD, a duo recording with her brother Mike, is appearing March 2010. In the pipeline are a live album recorded in New Zealand and an album (LOVE UNBIDDEN) of her love poetry.
     She also issues a homemade series entitled TIMELY PRODUCTIONS, contemporary songs put out ... well, whenever she writes them. Timely #4, Crazy Quilt, came 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).
     She was honored with a Doctor of Arts degree, honoris causa, by the University of Salford in July 2011. Her website, www.peggyseeger.com, contains further information, a discography, details about ordering, an itinerary and interesting insights into her creative life.

Concert -- 7 PM -- Elks Opera House
                              117 East Gurley Street
                                 Prescott, AZ 86301
                                       928-777-1370

                Ticket Prices:
Boxes and Front Orchestra - $25.00
Mid Orchestra and Front Balcony - $20.00 ($18 Seniors and Students)
Rear Orchestra and Rear Balcony - $15.00 ($13 Seniors and Students)

This concert is a benefit for Prescott Area Women's Shelter (PAWS)
and Coalition for Compassion and Justice (CC&J)