Over the years, "The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face" has been recorded by countless artists, and Roberta Flack's 1972 ...

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Patrick Kielty will host a Late Late Show Trad Special this Friday night, with a line-up of traditional musicians coming together for performances, collaborations and conversation.

Sitting down with Arena's Rick O'Shea is a woman who has been touring and performing for seven whole decades, one of the greatest folk musicians around, who has seamlessly woven her political activism ...

Today, Sept. 16, Rhiannon Giddens has shared a new cover of Peggy Seeger’s protest anthem “How I Long for Peace” to mobilize fans for National Voter Registration Day. Delivered in collaboration with ...

AN AMERICAN folk legend has left RTE viewers speechless after singing an emotional rendition of a song she had previously “refused” to sing. You'll now receive top stories, breaking news, and more, ...

EXPECT A CROWD ONSTAGE whenever the Seeger family celebrates one of its own. Turning up for folk music luminary Peggy Seeger's 70th birthday bash in London almost two years ago were brother Mike ...

Peggy Seeger, now 82, has spent most of her life in Britain, arriving in 1956 via the Netherlands, a Radcliffe dropout invited to London by Alan Lomax to play banjo in a group he’d hoped would be ...

It was a reunion of sorts for President Catherine Connolly when she found herself among the traditional music fraternity at the launch of this year’s TradFest in Dublin. “She’s one of our own,” said ...

Late Late Show viewers were moved to tears by Peggy Seeger’s performance of The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. Peggy, one of the most iconic folk singers of all time, appeared on the first-ever Late ...

Folk music legend Peggy Seeger will be paying tribute to her late husband Ewan MacColl on the Late Late Show’s trad special. Peggy, who is a member of the Seeger family of musicians, will appear on ...