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Mary Travers, seen in 1984, released five solo albums after the trio disbanded in 1970. The group reunited in 1978, however, and continued touring regularly until she recently became too ill.
Mary Travers of the popular folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary died after a years-long battle with leukemia. She was 72. In the early '60s, Travers joined Peter Yarrow and Noel "Paul" Stookey to make ...
BOSTON – Mary Travers, who as one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary helped popularize such tunes as “Puff (The Magic Dragon)” and “If I Had a Hammer,” died ...
Folk singer Mary Travers has died at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut following complications from leukemia treatment, her representative said. She was 72.
In her nearly 45 years with the famous folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, singer Mary Travers has resolutely resisted the draw of fame - and the excesses and self-absorbtion that it can cultivate.
Now, a magical pre-Revolutionary War Connecticut farmhouse, where the group’s late singer-songwriter and activist Mary Travers lived from 1966 until her death from leukemia in 2009, has hit the ...
Paul Stookey, Mary Travers and Peter Yarrow at The Greek Theatre in 1978. (Photo by Richard McCaffrey/ Michael Ochs Archive/ Getty Images) The singer-songwriter was born in New York.
Their third singer, Mary Travers, died in 2009. Yarrow was convicted of "taking indecent liberties with a minor" in 1970. He called the incident with a 14-year-old girl in a Washington hotel room ...
Yarrow, who with Travers and Stookey had supported Democratic Sen. Eugene McCarthy’s 1968 presidential bid, met the Minnesota senator’s niece, Mary Beth McCarthy, at a campaign event. The ...
Singers Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers were soon recruited and, using Stookey’s middle name, Peter, Paul and Mary were born. More from Variety.
Peter Yarrow, Singer With Folk Legends Peter, Paul & Mary and Co-Writer of ‘Puff the Magic Dragon,’ Dies at 86 By ... which continued until Travers died in 2009.