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Gloria

(17,663 posts)
Sat Jun 6, 2015, 11:48 PM Jun 2015

The 50 Years with Peter, Paul and Mary on PBS now is so bittersweet

Last edited Sun Jun 7, 2015, 12:19 AM - Edit history (1)

Not just the music, but their amazing committment and real caring about humanity. Death threats for their civil rights activities, farm workers, re-uniting after 7 years to singing protest about the Diablo nuke plant sitting on the San Andreas Fault. "If there was a cause, they were there for it."

There is nothing like this now. Nothing to stir our souls like they, and so many othet folksingers did.

I was in a trio in high school...we sang around town...most memorable was singing "the cruel war is raging...." at an Old Guard meeting and seeing old vets crying...

Sigh..

I still have their debut album tucked away....

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The 50 Years with Peter, Paul and Mary on PBS now is so bittersweet (Original Post) Gloria Jun 2015 OP
I really wish PBS would put that out on streaming. SheilaT Jun 2015 #1
My friends and I had their records, used to know all their songs Rhiannon12866 Jun 2015 #2
I remember back in the 1980's... Archae Jun 2015 #3
Yes. LWolf Jun 2015 #4
And, Peter and Paul are still involved Gloria Jun 2015 #5
It was a different era. Paka Jun 2015 #6
Paul's wife was chaplain at my school in MA Rhiannon12866 Jun 2015 #9
K&R! And the Iraq War was even more absurd than Vietnam. Enthusiast Jun 2015 #7
Holly Near and Ronnie Gilbert marym625 Jun 2015 #8
Ronnie Gilbert has just passed away.. Gloria Jun 2015 #10
That's why I posted it marym625 Jun 2015 #11

Rhiannon12866

(203,030 posts)
2. My friends and I had their records, used to know all their songs
Sun Jun 7, 2015, 12:01 AM
Jun 2015

I got to see them in concert back in the '80s on one of their reunion tours, and they were still just the best. When I was too young to be aware of such things, my mother was part of a group that ushered at one of their concerts when they performed locally, must have been in the early '60s, wish so much I could have been there!


Peter, Paul, and Mary: If I Had A Hammer, Civil Rights March on Washington DC, 1963

Archae

(46,262 posts)
3. I remember back in the 1980's...
Sun Jun 7, 2015, 12:05 AM
Jun 2015

How they were called "traitors" and all sorts of nasty names, since they protested the Reagan Central America policies.

Gloria

(17,663 posts)
5. And, Peter and Paul are still involved
Sun Jun 7, 2015, 12:10 AM
Jun 2015

With their projectst in thousands of school. So inspiring.

Stookey is one Christian who really lives his faith.

They all lived their values..amazing people.

Rhiannon12866

(203,030 posts)
9. Paul's wife was chaplain at my school in MA
Sun Jun 7, 2015, 09:17 PM
Jun 2015

And the group performed there. Unfortunately, it was after my time, would have loved that when I was there.

marym625

(17,997 posts)
8. Holly Near and Ronnie Gilbert
Sun Jun 7, 2015, 02:41 AM
Jun 2015

Holly speaks about how influential Ronnie was for her, and Ronnie does the same about Holly

Then they sing Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida together, a cappella, for the first time

Beautiful



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