Peggy Seeger tells a story about her older brother Pete choosing songs everybody knows so that if his memory fails him, it'll be OK: the audience will sing for him.
Peggy Seeger tells a story about her older brother Pete choosing songs everybody knows so that if his memory fails him, it'll be OK: the audience will sing for him.
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rob adams
She may be 77, but the woman who inspired Ewan MacColl to write The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face doesn't need to tread so carefully with her repertoire.
She has everyone singing from the start, because creating a sense of community through song is second nature to her, but over the next two hours she covers a range of subjects, through songs, anecdotes and poems, that demand a listening as much as a participating audience.
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