MUSICIAN AND ACTIVIST PEGGY SEEGER MARKS 90TH BIRTHDAY WITH FAREWELL TOUR

Peggy Seeger’s 25th and final solo album, to be released the month before her 90th birthday, is a fitting tribute to over 70 years as a working musician, feminist and activist. Peggy’s 25-date tour of the UK and Ireland which comes to Salford's Lowry on Wednesday 21st  May, will be her very last.  After the tour, Peggy will retire from recording and live performance.

This is no apologetic or quiet farewell – she’s going out with a thoughtful, philosophical and very satisfying BANG. Peggy’s voice and songwriting are still major forces to be reckoned with. Nine brand new songs and two reinterpretations span the pillars that have sustained her career.  Written and recorded with family members - established musician sons Neill and Calum (Calum also produced the album) and daughter-in-law Kate St John - this album is sheer class, suffused with love and respect. 

Teleology is the belief that everything that has happened is an arrow aimed at a target called now, and this album celebrates both the now and the timeline that has led her here.

Peggy says: “It is unavoidable that at 90 I am preoccupied with life, love, loss, old age and death but I’ve never abandoned politics or the compulsion to speak up when something isn’t right.  How I got here is still a bit of a mystery, but I’m exactly where I should be right now, and I’m at peace with that.” 

Tracks & Topics: 

1.      Sing About These Hard Times – a rousing opening track about social politics

2.      I Want to Meet Paul Simon – joyous tongue-in-cheek ode to a songwriting hero

3.      Teleology – a love song to life and chance

4.      The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – the classic love song written for Peggy by her lover Ewan MacColl (video https://youtu.be/5KB7vQzZAZw?si=GcFY-vw5wRBnnQfD) 

5.      Slow –  J.J.Cale-esque bluesy tribute to the pleasures of slowing down

6.      Through The Clouds – a cry from the heart about loss, loneliness and the passage of time 

7.      Sit Down – a rousing call for protest and personal activism

8.      Driftwood – a homage to refugees everywhere

9.      No Place Like Home – a song for the displaced

10.   Hope – celebrating the most enduring of human emotions

11.   Apple Tree – Peggy’s poignant farewell, acknowledging that life will move on regardless