Mary yarrow biography

When Margaret Mary Yarrow was born on 15 December 1883, in San Francisco, California, United States, her father, Edward J Yarrow, was 29 and her mother, Katherine Kemmy, was 35. She married Charles Lee Throckmorton on 23 November 1904, in San Francisco, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 10 May 1963, in San Mateo, California, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Colma, San Mateo, California, United States.

American folk music group popular in the 1960s

Peter, Paul and Mary were an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961 during the American folk music revival. The trio consisted of Peter Yarrow (guitar, tenor vocals), Noel Paul ("Paul") Stookey (guitar, baritone vocals), and Mary Travers (contralto vocals).^[1] The group's repertoire included songs written by Yarrow and Stookey, early songs by Bob Dylan, and covers of other folk musicians.

They were enormously successful in the early- and mid-1960s, with their debut album topping the charts for weeks, and helped popularize the folk music revival. After Travers's death in 2009, Yarrow and Stookey continued to perform as a duo under their individual names.^[2] Yarrow died in 2025, leaving Stookey as the only surviving member of the trio.

Mary Travers said she was influenced by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and the Weavers.^[3] In May 1963, Stookey described the formation and dynamics of the group on Folk Music Worldwide, an international short-wave radio show in New Yo

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