Mary Travers

Mary Travers fascinates me less as one third of Peter, Paul and Mary than as a witness to a turning era. Raised inside Greenwich Village's folk awakening, she carried a contralto that gave the trio its spine, and she lent that voice to the civil rights movement when it mattered. What I admire is how she treated song as testimony rather than entertainment. A Kentucky-born girl who became one of the defining sounds of the 1960s is a remarkable arc, and her death in 2009 closed a real chapter. To me she's proof that conviction can outlast a melody.

Name (English)

Mary Travers

Name (Japanese)

マリー・トラヴァース

Reading

まりー・とらゔぁーす

Born

November 9, 1936 – September 16, 2009

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rat

Origin

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Occupation

singer-songwriter / composer / singer

High school

Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School

• Official sitehttps://marytravers.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Travers
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466386

Tags

• Kentucky
• singer-songwriter
• composer
• singer

Last updated

2026-06-17

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