Biography
From his base in Northfield, Massachusetts, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Peter Siegel fuses political commentary with musical influences spanning the globe. Having placed as a finalist in the songwriting contests at Solarfest and the River (WRSI-FM), he sustains a balance between the divergent facets of his artistic identity. His debut release, Move the Mob, was characterized as a collection of "songs of sanity and satire addressing issues of the suburbs, social justice, family, sex, labor and love." For the follow-up album, Cat Out of the Bag, recorded alongside the Beverwyck String Band, Siegel centered on traditional fiddle tunes and songs drawn from New England, New York, Ireland, Quebec, the Shetland Islands, Sweden, and the Appalachian Mountain region. Though grounded in traditional folk music, he has extended his reach into hip hop, fingerstyle blues, fiddle tunes, swing, funk, talking blues, and country music while citing Phil Ochs, Run-D.M.C., Pete Seeger, Miles Davis, the Beatles, and Led Zeppelin among his influences. A onetime participant in the Hudson River Sloop Singers, Siegel appears with the Harmonious Hogchokers, the trio he assembled with his sister Laurie and Chris Iverson. An accomplished percussive clogger, he has performed at contredanses and concerts throughout western Massachusetts alongside David Kaynor and the Greenfield Dance Band, the Clefhangers, and the Beverwyck String Band.
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