Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Maggi Peirce grew up surrounded by songs, skipping rhymes and recitations. Stories were part of her upbringing but it was not until she had been eight years in America that she first started to tell stories and recite, as she had always been known as a fine unaccompanied singer of songs from Ulster.
Today her programs are made up of not only song and ballad, but also her recitations, from both countryside and Victorian drawing room, and her renowned storytelling.
Maggi Peirce's tales of her Belfast childhood are a wonder. - AudioFile
Ms. Peirce has spent the past 30 years performing nationally and is known by many in the South Coast and New England as a regional treasure. - David B. Boyce, The Standard-Times
In 2001, Maggi was presented with the Oracle Lifetime Achievement Award for "sustained and exemplary contribution to Storytelling in America" by the National Storytelling Network in Jonesborough, Tennessee.
Most recently, Maggi was one of the headlining storytellers at the 2006 Timpagogos Storytelling Festival in Orem, Utah.
Maggi has been a guest on Garrison Keillor's radio program, A Prairie Home Companion as well as an Artist-in-Residence across America.
