Acclaimed folk musician Peggy Seeger will hold a mini-residency at UNCA Wednesday, March 14, in celebration of Women’s History Month. Events are free and open to the public.

At 12:15 p.m. Seeger will give a talk on "A Feminist View of Anglo-American Folk Culture" in Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall. At 7 p.m. she will give a full-length concert, focusing on women’s influence in music, in the Highsmith Center Lounge.

A talented artist in her own right, Seeger comes from a long family line of folk music pioneers. Seeger’s mother, Ruth Crawford Seeger, was the first woman to be awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Music and was one of the nation’s foremost composers. Her father, Charles Louis Seeger, was a pioneer of ethnomusicology and inventor of the melograph, an electronic means of notating music. Seeger’s half-brother Pete is widely considered to be the father of the American folk-revival, while her brother Mike is a virtuoso on several dozen instruments.

Since the 1950s, Seeger has traveled widely singing and lecturing on the role of folksong in the modern world. Together with Ewan MacColl, Seeger is noted for leading the British folksong revival. In recognition of her work, Granada Television produced an hour-long documentary about Seeger as part of "The Exile" series. She has made nineteen solo LPS and has contributed to more than 100 other recordings with various artists. Best known for her songs on nuclear and feminist issues, Seeger recently released "The Peggy Seeger Songbook, Warts and All" and "The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook." She currently resides in Asheville.

For more information, call UNCA’s Student Activities Office at 828/251-6674.