And 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, through the formative - and controversial - Critics Group and the landmark BBC Radio Ballads series. It was in England that she met the man, some two decades older and with a wife and family, with whom she would share the next thirty-three years: the actor, playwright and songwriter Ewan MacColl. Her father was the noted musicologist Charles Seeger her mother, the modernist composer Ruth Crawford and her brother Pete, the celebrated writer of protest songs.Īfter studying at Radcliffe College, in 1955 Peggy left to travel the world.
Born in New York City in 1935, Peggy Seeger enjoyed a childhood steeped in music and politics.
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