Mary Travers
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Social Justice Guided Mary Travers' MusicTravers, who died Wednesday at 72, was raised on folk music. She grew up in Greenwich Village in the 1940s where she heard her parent's recordings of The Weavers and Pete Seeger. In a 1983 NPR interview, Travers explained how Peter, Paul... In this article: Mary Travers, Peter, Paul and Mary, Peter Yarrow, Leukemia, Puff the Magic Dragon, Leaving on a Jet Plane, If I Had a Hammer, Bob Dylan, Noel Paul Stookey, and John Denver |
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Kansas City Star | September 16, 2009
Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary dead at 72
...Greenwich Village. She quickly became enamored with folk performers like the Weavers, and was soon performing with Pete Seeger, a founding member of the Weavers who lived in the same building as the Travers family. </p><p>With a group...
In this article: Peter, Paul and Mary, Peter Yarrow, Lemon Tree, Blowin' in the Wind, Leaving on a Jet Plane, If I Had a Hammer, and Greenwich Village
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Telegraph.co.uk - International news | September 17, 2009
Obituary: Mary Travers of Peter Paul and Mary
...too; honestly and with complete authenticity." Noel "Paul" Stookey, the trio's other member, praised Travers for her inspiring activism, "especially in her defence of the defenceless." Mary Allin Travers was born on Nov 9, 1936, in...
In this article: Peter, Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan, Blowin' in the Wind, Pete Seeger, Chicago Daily News, Leukemia, and Leaving on a Jet Plane
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USATODAY.com | September 17, 2009
Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary helped give voice to an era
...artists in the booming folk revival. In 1960, Yarrow's manager assembled the trio with Travers as the vocal and visual centerpiece, and it quickly became a young liberal voice of the turbulent decade. Peter, Paul and Mary's 1962 debut...
In this article: Peter, Paul and Mary, USA Today, Peter Yarrow, Leukemia, Grammy, Bob Dylan, Noel Paul Stookey, Lemon Tree, and Blowin' in the Wind
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CNN | September 17, 2009
Mary Travers of 'Peter, Paul and Mary' dies
...2004 Democratic Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. Travers died from side effects of treatment from a bone-marrow transplant after battling leukemia, publicist Heather Lylis said. The singer was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in November...
In this article: Peter, Paul and Mary, Noel Paul Stookey, Puff the Magic Dragon, If I Had a Hammer, Peter Yarrow, New York City, Democracy, Stage fright, and Leukemia
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Rolling Stone | September 17, 2009
Mary Travers (1936-2009)
...moved with her family first to Albany, New York, and then to Greenwich Village. There, Travers attended a progressive school and met legends like Seeger and Paul Robeson, heard Josh White at children's folk concerts, and during high...
In this article: Pete Seeger, Leukemia, Blowin' in the Wind, Puff the Magic Dragon, If I Had a Hammer, Paul Stookey, Peter, Paul and Mary, Greenwich Village, and Leaving on a Jet Plane
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Gawker | September 16, 2009
R.I.P. Mary Travers, 72 [And Now He's Dead]
...was 72. Like so many of her aural generation - for example, Bob Dylan - Travers got her start in the Greenwich Village cafe scene and, like Dylan, too, her politically-charged lyrics helped propel her to international fame. In honor of...
In this article: Bob Dylan, Cancer, Blowin' in the Wind, Puff, the Magic Dragon, Peter, Paul and Mary, and Greenwich Village
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Mary Travers
...she haunted the coffee house circuit listening to the folk musicians who performed there. She was developing a powerful voice of her own, and sang at the Sunday afternoon folk music gatherings in Washington Square Park, then recorded with a...
In this article: Mary Allin Travers, Peter, Paul and Mary, Peter Yarrow, Bob Dylan, Blowin' in the Wind, If I Had a Hammer, Grammys, Noel "Paul" Stookey, and Pete Seeger
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Mary Allin Travers (November 9, 1936 – September 16, 2009) was an American singer-songwriter and member of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, along with Peter Yarrow and Noel "Paul" Stookey. Peter, Paul and Mary was one of the most successful folk-singing groups of the 1960s. Almost unique among the folk musicians who emerged from the Greenwich Village scene in the early 1960s, Travers actually came from the neighborhood.
- Name At Birth:
- Mary Allin Travers
- Birth Date:
- November 09, 1936
- Birthplace:
- , U.S.
- Death Date:
- September 16, 2009
- Place of Death:
- , U.S.
- Occupation:
- Singer
- Instrument Played:
- vocals
- Record Label:
- Warner Bros.
- Years Active:
- 1961-2009
- Associated With:
- Peter, Paul and Mary
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