Peggy Seeger
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Peggy Seeger at Cecil Sharp House
Live gigs resume at the Primrose Hill venue from May 20 with two performances by multi-instrumentalist singing trio Lady Maisery celebrating 10 years and five albums of unique harmonies and intelligent arrangements of traditional and original songs. On May 27 it s the turn of legendary Queen of folk Peggy Seeger and son Calum MacColl. Their shows are live streamed for those who can t make it to Regent s Park Road. For those who can, masks, social distancing, temperature checks and a one way system are part of Covid-safe measures with any cancellations from either venue or ticketholder fully refunded.
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Alfred Fagon was many things before becoming a playwright at the vanguard of the black British theatre movement of the 1970s and 80s: welder, champion boxer, railway worker, army man, poet and actor, with a colourful circle of friends including the model Christine Keeler. “He put no limits on himself and he didn’t want to follow any pattern,” says his friend Yvonne Brewster, the actor and director who, after his death, co-founded the Alfred Fagon awards to recognise black British writing talent.
Born in Jamaica into a sprawling household of 10 siblings, he left school to work with his father on the family’s orange plantation at 13 and emigrated to Britain in 1955, at the age of 18.
Hampstead Theatre has announced its first live productions for 2021. Alfred Fagon s darkly compelling, The Death of a Black Man will run from 28 May until 10 July having originally premiered at the theatre in 1975. 46 years on, this rare revival from the Black British playwriting canon, raises many of the same questions we face today surrounding identity, capitalism and sexual politics.
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