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The Radio Ballad ‘Singing The Fishing’, a gripping and enchanting tale of the East Coast Herring Fishing Industry, is to be brought to life in a new stage production. Read about the Radio Ballads, including extracts from our interview with Peggy Seeger and more.

EFDSS return once again with one of our favourite video series “In The Archive With…”. Their guest is Peggy Seeger who gets to hunt out some choice folk music from their archive. Peggy has also just announced her first Farewell Tour for Spring 2022.

While Peggy Seeger’s ‘First Farewell’ may be brief and beautiful, the material is so rich and vigorous, it makes for a satisfying whole. With this delightful album, we can only hope that she produces many more.

Suggested to be her final album of original material, ‘First Farewell’ is to be released on April 9, 2021. Mellowing, however, is not Seeger’s style and she’s not going quietly.

Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith partner with Kings Place for one-day festival exploring the role folk music can play in highlighting environmental issues. featuring Karine Polwart, Peggy Seeger, George Monbiot, Hazel Askew and Edgelarks.

On Peggy Seeger’s memoir – First Time Ever she writes of a rollercoaster life – of birth and abortion, sex and infidelity, devotion and betrayal – in a luminous, beautifully realised account. The publication will be supported by a Tour by Peggy and Family.

Don’t miss Normafest – a wonderful weekend in celebration of all things to do with folk music legend Norma Waterson in early January. Featuring: Stick in the Wheel, Lynched, The Furrow Collective, The Gift Big Band which will include Norma, Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Neill MacColl & special guest Richard Hawley.

Joy of Living is a Tribute album to Ewan MacColl which features performances from an all-star cast including Waterson:Carthy, The Unthanks, Dick Gaughan, Martin Simpson and Jack Steadman & Jamie MacColl performing ‘The Young Birds’, our Song of the Day.

Folk singer, songwriter, activist and muse, Peggy Seeger, is to be honoured by the UK music industry, receiving the inaugural Women In Music Award for ‘Creative Inspiration’.

Now age 79 Peggy Seeger talks to Folk Radio UK, looking back at the Radio Ballads and ahead with her new album ‘Everything Changes’ which is out now on Signet Music/Red Grape records.

Watch the 1972 documentary The Shoals of Herring which was based on one of the original Radio Ballads. A radio series that revolutionised documentary making.

Broadcaster is back with another new creation. Folksploitation features Peggy Seeger who said “I feel like I’ve been musically ‘outed’ – this is certainly further out than I’ve ever been!”

Jacqueline McDonald and Bridie O’Donnell, better known as Jacqui & Bridie formed the first full-time British female folk-song duo in 1964. They went onto set up a folk club in Liverpool which was the early stomping ground for the likes of Christy Moore, Tom Paxton, Martin Carthy and Peggy Seeger. It celebrated it’s 50th Anniversary and final night back in January this year.