| Show 42 replied "I had a small child and a funky day job in a bar Peter was thinking of putting a group together and I told him about this wonderful funny guy Noel Stookey doing mstepWith' across the street at the Gaslight Everyone in the Village then had a project walk-up- " so we rehearsed in my third-floo- r In 1963 the trio was in Washington Folksinger DC singing "If I stand-u- By James Brady p Mary Travers takes us back to King Jr gave his "I Have a Dream" Greenwich 7 Had a Hammer" on that August day when Martin Luther speech With the the Village the vast crowd andcould loudspeakers civil rights Mary actually hear Dr King? "He was movement not as far away as that wall" she said and the pointing across the cafe "When he got of early days to his fourth line I Peter Paul had an epiphany I said to Peter This is & Marv history' Dr King was a real human being He let me hold his kid on my lap" e It has been more a decade since the trio released an Grammy-winninalbum of material "This one is so V--- 4 five-tim- g all-ne- wis? : 1 ' UST OVER 40 YEARS AGO THREE young singers— Peter Yarrow Noel Paul Stookey and a cute single mother Mary Travers— teamed up J I 4 ULCCUWllll Village kUUCC i7 shop called The Bitter End American folk music has never been the same On Feb 24 Peter Paul & Mary will release their 21st album In Tliese Times plus J Al Bom Now 7 1937 in Louisville Ky Married to Ethan Robbins sine 1991 Two daughters— Erika 44 and Alicia 37— from previous marriages ' m ii mi rniTT - ' 1' " v 1 boxed set of their greatest hits tracks called Garry It unreleased including On Ms Travers had driven into Manhattan from her home in Connecticut to have lunch with me at a Greenwich Village cafe and to talk about the beginnings of her music and about the years since a four-dis- c asked Mary how the group took shape Td just gotten out of a lousy marriage" she I Include Peter Paul & Mary 1962 Moving 1963 In the Wind 1963 In Concert 1 965 A Song Will Rise 1 965 See What Tomorrow Brings 1965 Album 1700 1967 Peter Paul&Mommy 1969 Album 1969 Mary 1971 Morning Glory 1972 Reunion 1978 Such Is Love 1983 No Easy Walk to Freedom 1986 Holiday Celebration 1988 Flowers and Stones 1 990 Peter Paul & Mommy Too 1 993 Lifelines 1995 Around the CampHre 1998 Songs of Conscience and Concern 1999 In These Times 2004 Carry It On 2004 PHOTO BY MARC ROYCE FOR PARADE HAIR AND MAKEUP FOR UTOPIA STYLING BY PENNY LOVELL TOP BY HERARI BY exciting" Mary said of In These Times "We've been cutting back a bit but it takes time and a little wisdom to achieve balance There's the career to satisfy to pay the bills— while with family there are emotional bills to pay Noel and I are on the same page about work Peter always works too hard" Do her music partners still live in New York? "Noel is up on the coast of Maine" Mary said "and his wife works at a school in Massachusetts Peter lives in New York and has a place in Colorado but he's always flying somewhere" PBS will air a new Peter Paul & Mary documentary in March "We'd been watching footage from the '60s and 70s" said Mary "and my husband said 'Boy you were pretty hot You looked like Julie Christie'" Mary laughed "I told him 'I wish I had known I was so devastating'" £ For more on Mary Travers visit wwwparadecom and click on "In Step With" CO i Mary Travers was bom in Louisville where both of her parents were newspaper people They later moved to New York where the better jobs were "My father wrote novels" Mary told me "There were always books around educated myself in a home with books" Travers and her third husband Ethan Robbins retired restaurateur live In Connecticut with two cats and a dog in a house built in 1740 "rfs kind of like my knees" she said of the place "rfs showing signs of wear" She described Ethan more generously: "He's the perfect husband Not only bright and sensitive but kind and giving We have a lot of fun together" More of a homebody Mary listens to classical music both opera and symphony "But I really love Sarah Yaughan" she said And despite all her antiwar concert appearances Mary has entertained the troops I asked her about that "Not in Korea on a tank like Bob Hope" she said "Just here at home And rfs funny I get angry mail from civilians but never from soldiers They like our music" TIMOTHY JOHNSON PAGE 22 February IS 2004 PARADE |
