Mary Travers (1936-2009)

We Remember Mary Travers

A 48-year AFTRA member, Mary Travers, of the venerated 1960’s folk revival group Peter, Paul and Mary, died on Sept. 16 after a long battle with leukemia.

A native of New York’s Greenwich Village, the neighborhood that originated many of the popular folk acts of the 1960s, one of her earliest recordings was in 1955 as a member of The Song Swappers, in which she sang backup for fellow AFTRA member Pete Seeger in the union song collective “Talking Union.”

As a member of Peter, Paul and Mary, Travers was awarded five Grammys, and produced six Top 10 hit songs and five platinum albums over the span of her 50-year career.

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