Peter Paul & Mary Website

“Peter, Paul and Mary are folk singers.” So stated the liner notes to the group’s self-titled 1962 debut album. Today, this declaration seems redundant, because the term “folk music” has come to be virtually interchangeable with the group name, but when the words were written, they were meant less as a stylistic distinction than as a mission statement.

In the decades prior to the ‘60s, through the work of such avatars as Woody Guthrie, the Weavers and Pete Seeger, folk music had become identified with sociopolitical commentary, but the idiom had been forced underground in the Senator Joe McCarthy witch-hunting era of the late ‘50s. By the time Peter, Paul and Mary arrived on the scene, for the majority of America, folk was viewed merely as a side-bar to pop music which employed acoustic instruments. At this critical historic juncture, with the nation still recovering from the McCarthy era, the Civil Rights Movement taking shape, the Cold War heating up and a nascent spirit of activism in the air, Peter Yarrow, Noel (Paul) Stookey and Mary Travers came together to juxtapose these cross currents and thus to reclaim folk’s potency as a social, cultural and political force. But few at the time could have realized how fervently and pervasively the group’s message of humanity, hope and activism would be embraced. (full biography)

Peter, Paul & Mary join Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Graham Nash in
asking for your help in creating a world free of nuclear weapons.

Dear Friends,

Nuclear war is a threat to the survival of humanity.

But we can make a difference if we act now.

Join us in sending a message to the next occupant of the White House.

We want a change of priorities in Washington.

We believe it's time for US Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World.

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation is gathering the support of one million people to present to the new President on Inauguration Day 2009.

Will You Take a Few Seconds and Join Us?

Since the '70s, we've been advocating and volunteering our time and music to make the planet a safer, healthier, cleaner place to live.
Right now we face the most immediate catastrophic threat ever known.

Nuclear weapons could destroy the Earth for future generations. The time has come to act.

It only takes a few seconds to help make the world a safer place.

Click here to sign on for a world free of nuclear weapons and the American leadership necessary to make it possible.

It's a question of will.

Never say die. Never say nuclear.

Thanks,

Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne & Graham Nash

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SPRING TOUR - updated Aug 15, 2008
NJ show posted

FALL TOUR - updated Mar 25, 2008
fall tour posted!

NEWS - updated Oct 15, 2007
PP&M honored

THE ARTS - updated April 18, 2007
a 1968 Song Book

THE GIFTSHOP - updated Jan 10, 2007.
new t-shirt!

FREE STUFF - updated Dec 2006
Carry it On - the hidden tracks

JUKEBOX - updated January 21, 2006
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