Peggy Seeger celebrated her 70th birthday the other day with a concert at Queen Elizabeth hall in London. The concert included brothers Mike and Pete as well as Billy Bragg, Martin Carthy, Norma Waterson and Eliza Carthy, partner Irene Scott and children Neill, Calum and Kitty MacColl.
You can find reviews here and here.
Update: Friday June 10th Paul Castle wrote to say..
You – and your site visitors – might be interested to know that you can hear highlights of this concert, along with studio interviews with Peggy, Mike and Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Martin Carthy and others – via the BBC Folk & Acoustic site here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/
The show is archived online until next Wednesday (June 15)
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