Alongside Paul Stookey and Mary Travers, Yarrow formed and contributed compositions to Peter, Paul and Mary. The folk music revival of the 1960s catapulted the group into stardom, as the trio ...

The singer, songwriter and political activist is best known for his almost 50-year career with the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Yarrow, Paul Stuckey and Mary Travers met in New York City’s ...

Mary Travers died in 2009 after being diagnosed with leukemia five years earlier. Peter Yarrow died Jan. 7 after a four-year battle with bladder cancer. After getting his start in a rock ‘n ...

Peter Yarrow, one-third of the hit-making 1960s ... suggested he team up with the Kentucky-born singer Mary Travers. Travers in turn proposed they include Paul Stookey. After polishing their ...

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 couple ...

Cannily realising the potential of an equivalent folk trio featuring a sexy blonde, Grossman assembled solo folkie Peter Yarrow, stand-up comic Paul Stookey and off-Broadway actress Mary Travers ...

Peter Yarrow, founding member of the legendary ... Yarrow and his band mates Mary Travers and Noel "Paul" Stookey burst onto the American folk music scene in 1961 with an influential style ...

He played upright bass for Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers, and helped Denver pen ‘Sunshine on My Shoulders,' one of his biggest hits. He was “our intrepid bass player for ...

Paul and Mary’s activism, their support of civil rights and of the Soviet Jewry movement. I learned new songs, written by Peter (Yarrow) that touched on his Jewish background both explicitly ...

Yarrow is best known for his almost 50-year career with the legendary folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. His gift for songwriting has produced popular numbers such as “Puff, the Magic Dragon ...

Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary pays tribute to the legendary Pete Seeger Peter Yarrow sings a version of Pete Seeger’s “If I had a Hammer” to help remember the legendary folksinger.