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Songs of Conscience with Peggy Seeger and Thea Gilmore
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall : Main Auditorium
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The second of our Songs of Conscience concerts at this year’s Celtic Connections features an international cast of top vocal talent, united by their commitment to songs that engage with political, moral, social and spiritual issues.
We are delighted to welcome American folk singer Peggy Seeger who is renowned for incorporating political activism into traditional song form. She is best known for her feminist song Gonna Be an Engineer and for The Ballad of Springhill, which is rapidly becoming regarded as a traditional song.
She lived in Britain with her husband, the English songwriter Ewan MacColl, for 30 years and has made 21 solo recordings and participated in over a hundred recordings with other artists. Her 1998 CD, Period Pieces: Women’s Songs for Men and Women, received major attention from Billboard.
Her latest project is her Home Trilogy, three albums in which each disc contains one or two songs of her own composition and the rest traditional USA songs. Volume 2, Love Call Me Home, is the latest in this series.
Joining Peggy on stage will be Appalachian virtuoso Laura Boosinger and Southern Californian Sara Watkins who is best known for her work as singer and fiddle player in the acoustic group Nickel Creek. Drawing from a broad variety of influences, she combines jazz, rock, celtic, and classical elements in her playing and singing. Sara plays regular shows at the famed Los Angeles club Largo where friends Jon Brion, Benmont Tench, and others often sit in. These shows have also led to session work for artists such as Ray LaMontagne and Johnny Lang. Sara plans to take advantage of Nickel Creek’s upcoming hiatus to record and release her first solo album.
They will be joined from this side of the pond by Ireland’s Karan Casey described as “The most soulful singer to emerge in Irish traditional music in the past decade” (The Herald, Glasgow) and English singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore, touted by Uncut magazine as “the best British singer-songwriter of the last 10 years…and then some”.
The evening will be hosted by Scotland’s own formidable singer-songwriters Karine Polwart and Corrina Hewat with full supporting band.
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