Mary Travers, a striking figure in the early-1960s folk music movement, died Wednesday at
Danbury Hospital in
Connecticut after suffering from leukemia for several years. She was 72.
She was best known as the blond with the bangs who commanded the middle microphone with
Peter, Paul and Mary, a trio that brought folk music from coffeehouses to top-40 radio.
They also introduced to
America the young
Bob Dylan and helped him to turn his "Blowin' in the Wind" into a national anthem.
The group reunited several years ago to begin touring, and Travers performed with them until a few months ago.
Travers, like
Paul Stookey and
Peter Yarrow, saw folk music both as an art and as an instrument for change. They sang a number of sociopolitical songs, which Travers later defended.
Our political affairs editor, Rightard Whitey, saw the trio in concert at Ohio State University the turbulent 1960s. It was an amazing concert during an era in which political consciousness was very apparent in American music.
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