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Hace 5 días · Lancastrian folk singer-songwriter, Ewan, was wed to his second wife, Jean – with whom he had two children, including pop star Kirsty MacColl – when he fell for Peggy and within six months wrote the classic song, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, for her.
Hace 6 días · To Everything There Is A Season: Pete Seeger and American Song. American historian Allan Winkler wrote a biography of Seeger and played music with him. Winkler will visit highlights from Seeger’s life in every major social movement of the 20th century. And play some of Pete Seeger’s best-loved songs. Free, donations suggested.
Hace 1 día · American folk music is a kind of oral storytelling that dates back long before even the printing press. It is a vehicle to transmit culture from one generation to the next.
Hace 5 días · Sometimes known as The Forsaken Lover, The False Bride , The Week Before Easter, or I Aince Hid a Lad, depending on circumstances, it is found in a c.1685 broadside, printed by John White, Newcastle upon Tyne, and is well-known throughout England, Scotland, and North America.
Hace 4 días · The work quality dropped, and the lament quality ratcheted up. It has been sung by dozens of people, one of those tracks that criss-crosses the Atlantic with the folk – Peggy Seeger sang it when she was in England with Ewan McColl, for example.
Hace 6 días · To Everything There Is A Season: Pete Seeger and American Song. American historian Allan Winkler wrote a biography of Seeger and played music with him. Winkler will visit highlights from...
Hace 2 días · Ewan’s widow, folk singer Peggy Seeger, recently commented that the rarely sung verse “I’m going to get me a big sharp axe, Shining steel tempered in the fire, I’ll chop you down like an old dead tree, Dirty old town, dirty old town” spoke to Ewan’s concerns about the struggle of working class people.
