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Goodbye

Folk legend Peggy Seeger is leaving Boston, but she’s not slowing down

“Essentially what you’re trying to do is wedge these songs into other people’s heads, the way they’re wedged into yours,’’ says Peggy Seeger. “Essentially what you’re trying to do is wedge these songs into other people’s heads, the way they’re wedged into yours,’’ says Peggy Seeger. (Michele McDonald for The Boston Globe)
By Scott Alarik
Globe Correspondent / April 16, 2010

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A sked how she would describe her long, rich, and profoundly important career, Peggy Seeger is stumped. “Whoo,’’ she says, and “Oh, my.’’ Then the 74-year-old folk singer answers slowly, intimately. (Full article: 825 words)

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