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I did not know the name until they said she was the Mary of Peter, Paul and Mary of the 60’s folk group
That is 2 in 2 days now😥 😥 Totally bummed. The very first concert I ever went to was a Peter, Paul and Mary concert to which my dad took me. I also got to see them a couple of years ago – it was right after the Virginia Tech shooting because I remember them dedicating Blowing in the Wind to it. The concert was a blast and Mary joked about how she got a bone marrow transplant from a Republican! My sister and I were talking about this tonight and it turned out she was going to go to a concert in July but didn’t because Mary had to pull out of the concert because of her bad health so Eileen never got to see them in concert. 🙁 I’m going to go listen to some of their music now.
Oh, I am so sorry!!! This group was so important to me in 2 times in my life. In the first one, I had just left my husband and was feeling very depressed. They were playing at the Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento where I lived and I wanted so much to go see them but no one I knew wanted to go see them. This was a time when one, especially women, just didn’t go out at night alone to this huge auditorium alone. I really wanted to go though, so I took my courage in both hands and my binoculars and I went to the auditorium, found a parking place and went in, bought a ticket on the mezzanine floor, front row. I was so nervous!!! I happened to have two couples on either side of me. I struck up conversations with both of them, lent them my binoculars on occassion, and had the best time!!! The group was in its heyday, about 1967, and they were superb!! I went home absolutely floating!! I knew then that I could do anything I wanted to by myself without having to wait until someone else wanted to go! I was truly free!!! Twenty years later, I went to England by myself to do an internship, and then went to Italy for a week totally by myself. I got to see the David and the Rafael and the other incredible art work that is there. Yea for me!!! That experience with PP&M gave me “permission” to do that. My deepest gratitude to you!!!
I also got to see them on my fortieth birthday in Reno when my second husband bought me surprise tickets to go. We got superb seats and they sang Happy Birthday to me and I thought I had gone to heaven!!!
I have tapes of some of their concerts that were on TV specials like the Christmas special and 3 others that I converted to DVDs. I also have most if not all of their vinyl records. They will always be 1st in my heart for this music genre.
Rest In Peace, Mary, you were in one of the best groups that ever was!!! You made the world a better place than you found it, and you and Peter and Paul never backed down from your moral integrity and social convictions. You were a beacon of light in a world gone mad! You will be sorely missed!! 😥 😥 😥
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