Peter, Paul and Mary star Mary Travers dies aged 72

Singer with hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary dies in Connecticut after having leukemiaMary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died.The band's publicist, Heather Lylis, said Travers died yesterday at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut. She was 72 and had leukemia for several years.Travers joined forces with Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey in the early 1960s.The trio mingled their music with liberal politics both onstage and off. T...

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