Vocal Chords in Conversation with Peggy Seeger: Iarla Ó Lionáird & Peggy Seeger on Donald Trump

An excerpt of Iarla Ó Lionáird in conversation with folk singer Peggy Seeger for Vocal Chords - the full programme will be broadcast on March 24th at 7pm on RTÉ lyric fm. Peggy Seeger is a song writer and singer whose work stretches from her roots in American folk to the political songs of 30 years with her late husband Ewan MacColl and her own solo work which has a strong feminist and human rights focus. In this excerpt, from the full documentary, Peggy shares her fears for her home country, the United States, in a period of Donal Trump as President and also the changing climate in her long term home, the United Kingdom, in a time of Brexit.

In Vocal Chords in Conversation with Peggy Seeger, Iarla Ó Lionáird meets Peggy Seeger at her home in Oxford to explore her life’s journey in song and song composition. Peggy talks of her childhood growing up under the influence of her older half brother Peter Seeger and in a home where legendary singers like Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie would visit to meet her parents, song collectors and composers Charles Seeger and Ruth Crawford Seeger.

Peggy met, and later married folk singer and writer Ewan MacColl, and she shares her experience of working with Ewan from the late 1950s until his death in the late 1980s. Since then Peggy has continued to write and perform and she now works with her musician sons Neill and Calum and she is now in a civil partnership with Irene Pyper Scott, a Northern Irish singer she first met in 1964 in Belfast.

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