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Peggy Seeger: First Farewell
Valedictory gems from a folk music great
CELEBRATORY: Peggy Seeger and Paul Robeson performing in Trafalgar Square in 1960
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
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GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
AT THE age of 85 and with a lifetime of singing and campaigning for progressive causes, Peggy Seeger has just released her latest album and it has been described as “probably” her final one.
Yet the songs and the themes explored in First Farewell demonstrate that she is as committed as ever to using music to express both life and hope in these particularly challenging times.
Composed of entirely new songs and with support from sons Calum and Neill MacColl and daughter-in-law Kate St John, the album reflects on growing older as well as developing further concerns such as peace, the environment and feminism that Seeger has had throughout her career.
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