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Margaret " Peggy " Seeger ( born June 17 , 1935 ) is an American folksinger . She is also well known in Britain , where she has lived for more than 30 years and was married to the singer and songwriter Ewan MacColl until his death in 1989 . Mike Seeger ( August 15 , 1933August 7 , 2009 ) was an American folk musician and folklorist . He was a distinctive singer and an accomplished musician who played autoharp , banjo , fiddle , dulcimer , guitar , mouth harp , mandolin , dobro , jaw harp , and pan pipes . Seeger , a half - brother of Pete Seeger , produced more than 30 documentary recordings , and performed in more than 40 other recordings . He desired to make known the caretakers of culture that inspired and taught him . James Henry Miller ( 25 January 1915  22 October 1989 ), better known by his stage name Ewan MacColl , was an ___MASK62___ folk singer , songwriter , communist , labour activist , actor , poet , playwright and record producer . Charles Louis Seeger , Jr . ( December 14 , 1886 -- February 7 , 1979 ) was an American musicologist , composer , and teacher . He was the father of the American folk singers Pete Seeger ( 1919 -- 2014 ) , Peggy Seeger , and Mike Seeger ( 1933 - 2009 ) . Fiddle is another name for the bowed string musical instrument more often called a violin . It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres , including classical music . Fiddle playing , or fiddling , refers to various styles of music . Fiddle is also a common term among musicians who play folk music on the violin . The fiddle is part of many traditional ( folk ) styles of music which are aural traditions , taught ' by ear ' rather than via written music . Fiddle is normally the term used for ___MASK90___ Traditional Music .