Cambridge will be twice graced by the Queen of Folk, Peggy Seeger, this summer – an ‘In Conversation’ evening on 10 May, and an appearance at the Cambridge Folk Festival in July in the ‘US Legend’ slot. She’s certainly a legend, thanks to her output as a songwriter, as a performer, and through her incredible storied past as part of the Seeger family and through her marriage to folk titan Ewan MacColl, the architect of the English folk revival in the early 1960s, which was the scene of both Bob Dylan’s and Paul Simon’s early immersion in the folk tradition… Born in New York into a much-loved …
