SOME people these days state their intention to work until they can retire at 45 and enjoy their houses, cars, children, pastimes and leisure while they are still comparatively young.

And comparing them to Peggy Seeger, that’s sort of half-grown. The American-born singer-songwriter, half-sister of folk singer Pete Seeger, is still perhaps best known as the inspiration for the timeless love song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, written by her then lover and later husband Ewan MacColl, back in 1957.

Now looking forward to her 90th birthday in June, Peggy is on her last ever tour, celebrating 70 years of music making and the release of her 25th (and final, she says) solo album, Teleology. She is coming to Komedia in Bath on Sunday 8th June for a matinee performance, as part of the 25-venue tour which also stops at Stroud Subscription Rooms on 1st and Forest Arts in New Milton on 10th June.

Peggy is described as a songwriter, singer, performer, campaigner, feminist and legend.

Teleology is in now way a quiet farewell – typically, she is determined to go out with a bang. There are nine brand new songs and two reinterpretations span the pillars that have sustained her career. Slow, the first single from the new album, written with her son Calum MacColl, is a tribute to the pleasures of slowing down and clearing one’s mind to pay attention to the small things in life.

Teleology is the belief that everything that has happened is an arrow aimed at a target called now, so this album appropriately celebrates both that now and the timeline that has led her here.

She says: “It is unavoidable that at 90 I am preoccupied with life, love, loss, old age and death but I’ve never abandoned politics or the compulsion to speak up when something isn’t right. How I got here is still a bit of a mystery, but I’m exactly where I should be right now – and I’m at peace with that.”

Grab a chance to hear this remarkable woman, singing her long farewell.