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SPOTLIGHT PEGGY SEEGER

eggy Seeger, folk royalty and a legend among musical legends, is sitting in her Oxfordshire home beaming at her computer’s camera for this Zoom session. We’ve been speaking for nearly an hour about her life, her music and, closely aligned, its political activism; and how, at 85, the body doesn’t make it so easy to get out on demonstrations and picket lines, though her spirit is still very much willing. Seeger’s blue eyes sparkle throughout and then, suddenly, she throws a

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