Hammer time: Peter (but no Paul or Mary) comes to UVA
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Peter Yarrow, one third of the historic folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, will speak on the music of the 1960s at Old Cabell Hall on Wednesday April 28 at 8pm to kick off the Golden Anniversary Series put on by the Center for Politics. The decade-long series will examine various 1960s events on their fiftieth anniversaries. Yarrow, who earned five Grammys and has had multiple albums go platinum, will also perform some of his classics “Puff the Magic Dragon” and “Leaving on a Jet Plane.” Tickets are free and must be picked up at the UVA Arts Box Office in the lobby of the Drama Building at 109 Culbreth Road between noon and 5pm Monday through Friday.
He came to Western Albemarle about 10 years ago — it was the best free concert I ever attended.
If Mary was to appear, it would be quite an event.
She passed away last year
AWESOME - We all have a chance to see a living legend perform. We can tell our children, grandchildren, etc., about it!
Opening act: Scott Joplin!
Will try to make it. I missed PPM many years ago when they were at U-Hall.
I highly recommend their DVD Carry It On which chronicled their career up to 2004. This, along with No Direction Home(Bob Dylan),Murray Lerner’s “Festival”(Newport Folk Festival) and Joan Baez’s How Sweet the Sound which came out last year, are the best when it comes to the music and history of that period(60s).
PPM carried on a long tradition of social consciousness with their music, fromm the 1963 March on Washington to a song about Matthew Shepherd on this DVD. Sometimes think we have far too little of that today- but we do have such as Melissa Etheridge, the Indigo Girls,and Steve Earle. And Baez is still going strong 50 years later!
just don’t let him near your young daughters……………
http://theawarenesscenter.org/yarrow_peter.html
Was it really necessary to bring that up, a mistake he made 40 years ago, at a time when “free love” was the flavor of the day?
Not saying what he did was not wrong, just that it is a gray area. Certainly nothing like that child rapist whose story is here.
Its more like Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, except for the age of consent issue. And I suspect the same thing has happened with a lot of entertainers who have had underage groupies throw themselves at them.
By the way, do people know that Yarrow was married to Mary Beth McCarthy, Senator Eugene McCarthy’s daughter? She died of cancer in the 90s and is buried in Woodville, Va along with her father who spent the last years of his life there.