Once the concert begins, though, the audience will share some time with Noel, who took a stage name 50 years ago to give Peter, Paul and Mary a more sonorous, biblically-resonant name, but never turned that character into a barrier. Walking with his...

May I observe that the graphic for this and the most recntly previous post have both been “CLASSIC” - rock on, Ed Silverman! Although you might have edited a Peter, Paul and Mary album cover to “Where have all the trials gone…” …. then again, perhaps not!

Each of the three ballets explore aspects of love: familial to fierce, unadorned to unrequited, expected and surprising. The opening “Leatherwing Bat” takes a nostalgic look at childhood joy, fear, certainties and longing. The music, culled from Peter,...

It takes a lot more effort to be a jerk." Carter, 60, these days sings, in her deep alto jazz style, more than she acts. She released a CD titled "Crazy Little Things" last summer. It features Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," the Motown...

To fill out the trio, Yarrow selected Noel Paul Stookey, an extraordinarily gifted performer with a background in jazz, pop and rock n roll. I knew it was magic the first time we sang Mary Had a Little Lamb, Yarrow said. It was palpable. The three...

His upright bass lines provided a distinctive backbone to the trio’s vocal harmonies throughout the group’s decades together. "He had this capacity to weave countermelodies," Peter, Paul and Mary’s Noel Paul Stookey recently told the New York Times. ...