Peter and Paul, but No More Mary

After a long battle with leukemia folk singer Mary Travers has died at the age of 72.

Before joining Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey to form Peter, Paul, and Mary; Travers sang with the Song Swappers, the Weavers and Pete Seeger who was a neighbour of the Travers family in Greenwich Village.

In the early sixties Peter, Paul and Mary were known as much for their activism in their lyrics as they were for their folk music. The five time Grammy Award inning trio stayed atop the Billboard charts with such hits as "If I Had a Hammer", "Puff the Magic Dragon", "Lemon Tree", "Leavin' on a Jet Plane", and "Blowin' in the Wind".

Among the musicians who used their music to express their feelings toward the establishment in the sixties; Peter, Paul, and Mary shared the stage with Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham and marched along with Vietnam War protesters to Washington DC.

Travers was known as much for her long blond hair as she was for her clear soprano voice that helped to form the perfect three part harmony the trio was famous for producing.