Peggy Seeger’s 25th and final solo album, released the month before her 90th birthday, is a fitting tribute to over 70 years as a working musician, feminist and activist. Peggy’s 25-date tour of the UK and Ireland in May & June will be her very last.  After the tour, Peggy will retire from recording and live performance.

This is no apologetic or quiet farewell – she’s going out with a thoughtful, philosophical and very satisfying BANG. Peggy’s voice and songwriting are still major forces to be reckoned with. Nine brand new songs and two reinterpretations span the pillars that have sustained her career.  Written and recorded with family members – established musician sons Neill and Calum (Calum also produced the album) and daughter-in-law Kate St John – this album is sheer class, suffused with love and respect.

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.

Peggy says: “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.”

Peggy plays The Lowry on Wednesday 21^st May with tickets available here.