It’s fair to describe Peggy Seeger as folk music royalty by now. Just a glance at her family tree reveals a plethora of star-studded names.
She’s the half-sister of folk legend (and Bob Dylan mentor) Pete Seeger, while musician Mike Seeger is another sibling. She is also, of course, the widow of Scottish singer Ewan MacColl, which makes her the stepmother to the late Kirsty MacColl and grandmother to Bombay Bicycle Club‘s Jamie MacColl.
Seeger though has been a prolific artist in her own right over the last 70 years or so. She’s been a prolific feminist, with the seminal I’m Gonna Be An Engineer amongst her credits, and was a visitor to the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp during the 1980s.
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