‘Queen of Folk’ brings tour to the Hawk’s Well

PEGGY Seeger has announced a performance in the Hawk’s Well Theatre among 14 Irish dates as part of her UK and Irish First Farewell tour.

Peggy Seeger, pictured, will be performing with her son Calum MacColl, a gifted professional musician and songwriter in his own right and producer of many of her albums, including her most recent album.

This is an unmissable evening of warmth, humour and exceptional musicianship, mixing traditional and original songs from across Peggy’s remarkable career with anecdotes and plenty of family chat. Speaking about the tour, Peggy said: “First Farewell is an odd title for a CD or a tour, but it looks both forward and back as I have tried to do in my life.

“I have toured all over the globe since I was 20 and it is always a delight, a new adventure.

“I am an activist, an advocate, a left-winger, an eco-feminist, a singer of traditional and topical songs, trying to speak in my own way for my own time. This may be the last time, but then again it may not.”

The tour takes its name from Peggy’s new album ‘First Farewell’ which was Mojo Magazine’s number one Folk Album of the Year and was shortlisted for Songlines magazine Album of the Year.

Christened by The Guardian as ‘Folk’s First Lady’ and by the Sunday Times as ‘Folk’s Matriarch’, Peggy Seeger has 26 solo albums and more than 100 collaborative albums under her belt.

Few artists and even fewer female artists can claim such an impressive catalogue of work. Modesty would prevent her from calling herself a national treasure, but she embodies the term in cultural significance not only for her song-writing and musi- cianship but also in her refusal to compromise standards or beliefs.

Her show takes place in the Hawk’s Well on Thursday, June 2. Tickets are €25 and €12.50 concession. Doors open at 7.30pm and the performance begins at 8pm.