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Mary Allin Travers
(November 9, 1936 ? September 16, 2009) was an American
singer-songwriter
and member of the
folk music
group
Peter, Paul and Mary
, along with
Peter Yarrow
and
(Noel) Paul Stookey
. Peter, Paul and Mary was one of the most successful folk-singing groups of the 1960s.
[2]
Unlike most folk musicians of the early 1960s who were a part of the burgeoning music scene in the
Village
, Travers grew up there.
[2]
She sang in the
contralto
range.
[3]
Travers died on September 16, 2009 from complications of
bone marrow transplant
due to
leukemia
in
Danbury, Connecticut
at the age of 72.
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