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PEGGY SEEGER IN CONVERSATION
Saturday 3 March 2018 | 1pm
First Time Ever is Peggy Seeger's clear-eyed, luminous and truthful memoir.
See Peggy in conversation and sharing music tracks and film archive.
Born in New York City, Peggy Seeger enjoyed a childhood steeped in music and politics. Her father was musicologist Charles Seeger; her mother, the composer Ruth Crawford; and brother Pete, a writer of protest songs. It was in England, however, that she met the man with whom she would share the next thirty-three years, Ewan MacColl. As Ewan's muse, Peggy inspired one of the twentieth century's greatest love songs "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." Together, Peggy and Ewan helped lay the foundations of the British folk revival.
Join Peggy for a lunchtime "Writers and Readers" session. This will be her first and only such session in New Zealand before returning to the UK.