Legendary folk singer, musician and political activist Peggy Seeger is to perform at a special one-off concert to mark International Workers Day.

The event will take place at Cecil Sharp House, London, on the evening of 7 May 2026, and tickets are on sale now. Buy tickets.

Seeger will perform alongside prominent folk singers and musicians Jackie Oates and Nick Hart, Lancashire ballad singer and SSLH executive committee member Jennifer Reid, and Francis Devine, who is also a leading figure in the Irish Labour History Society.

Now eighty-five years old, American-born Seeger released her first solo album in 1954, and has been recording ever since, as a solo artist, alongside her late husband Ewan MacColl, and with other artists.

Seeger published her autobiography, First Time Ever: A Memoir (Faber and Faber) along with a double CD of songs in 2017. She is, famously, the subject of MacColl’s song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.

Get tickets for the Songs for the Workers concert.