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Peggy Seeger on Creating Swim To The Star, Best Song at the 2015 BBC Folk Music Awards: Video

Peggy Seeger and her son Calum MacColl explain how they created Swim To The Star, the song about the Titanic that won the award for Best Original Song at the 2015 BBC Folk Music Awards.

 

Posted by on 04 May 2015 at 10:05 PM |

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