Peggy Seeger will perform at the Lowry as she embarks on her last ever concert tour in celebration of her 90th Birthday.
The grande dame of American and British Folk music, will perform alongside her sons, Neill and Calum MacColl at the Salford theatre.
The artist will be performing in Salford with already close links to the city, being married to Ewan McColl, who wrote the anthem Dirty Old Town from 1977, until his death in 1989.
Taking to the stage on Wednesday 21 May, Peggy will be celebrating her extraordinary 70-year career, as well as new songs from her final album ‘Teleology’.
Teleology is the belief that everything that has happened is an arrow aimed at a target called now, and this album celebrates both the now and the timeline that has led her here.
And the 25th and final solo album will continue to be uncompromising, with her wit and delivery are as sharp as ever – a working musician, feminist and activist.
Peggy’s 25-date tour of the UK and Ireland in May & June will be her very last, retiring from recording and live performances.
Peggy Seeger continued: “It is unavoidable that at 90 I am preoccupied with life, love, loss, old age and death but I’ve never abandoned politics or the compulsion to speak up when something isn’t right.
“How I got here is still a bit of a mystery, but I’m exactly where I should be right now, and I’m at peace with that.”
She will be joined by Neill and Calum MacColl, two superb musicians, sharing unique onstage chemistry with their mother.
Salford residents who attend the show should expect whip-smart humour, family banter, blood harmonies and audience participation, alongside world-class musicianship.
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