Peter, Paul & Mary News

Roy Book Binder, a storytelling, fingerpicking blues legend, will perform Friday evening at Sandywoods Center for the Arts in Tiverton.

The Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., will host a special screening of "Don McLean: American Troubadour," with special guests Don and Patrisha McLean, Sunday, June 2, at 6 p.m. Don McLean is one of America's most enduring singer/songwriters and is forever associated with his classic hits "American Pie," "Vincent," "Crying" and "Castles in the Air." ... (more)

As Leonard Cohen says in "Anthem," Ring the bells that still can ring/Forget your perfect offering/There is a crack, a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in .

'The thick Aran sweaters which became their trademark' a the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem in New York in 1961.

Joel and Ethan Coen's iconic creation, the picaresque adventure of the Dude, keeps turning up.

"If it's never new and it doesn't get old," the singer tells his audience, "it's a folk song." Llewyn Davis has just finished performing the traditional blues number "Hang Me, Oh Hang Me" for a sparse crowd at the Gaslight CafA© in New York City's Greenwich Village in early 1961.

For Robin Fineman, a benefit concert featuring a popular 1960s folk singer is another chance at improving her son's health, as well as the health of others around the world.

As Leonard Cohen says in "Anthem," Ring the bells that still can ring/Forget your perfect offering/There is a crack, a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in .

Singer Peter Yarrow will play a benefit concert in Manhattan this weekend to raise money for a Fair Lawn boy in a need of a bone marrow transplant.

As Leonard Cohen says in "Anthem," Ring the bells that still can ring/Forget your perfect offering/There is a crack, a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in .

A 4-year-old boy who needs a miracle to survive is hoping to get a little help from Puff the Magic Dragon.

Information was provided by the communications department at Webster University .

As Leonard Cohen says in "Anthem," Ring the bells that still can ring/Forget your perfect offering/There is a crack, a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in .

Dennis Landis announced Monday that he is selling the restaurant at 1750 Travis Blvd.

Craig Carothers grew up in a musical family in the Pacific Northwest, where he attended Aloha High School.

In February, David and Francine Wheeler, the parents of a child killed in the Sandy Hook tragedy, joined notable musicians including Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary and the folksinger Dar Williams to perform a concert for the community.

With all due respect to Peter, Paul and Mary, whose song was "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" the question should be "Where Have All the Teachers Gone?" According to the The State Journal-Register in Springfield, there has been a decline of 13 percent in the number of teacher education students since 2008.

Francine and David Wheeler's youngest son Ben was killed in the December 14th attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

As Leonard Cohen says in "Anthem," Ring the bells that still can ring/Forget your perfect offering/There is a crack, a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in .

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