(Or, in the saddest cases, both.) I WAS a half-hearted folkie back in 1965, when the first Richard and Mimi Farina album, Celebrations for a Grey Day, came out. Although it was later chosen by ...

In 1966, the American novelist and musician Richard Fariña seemed on the cusp of greatness. The New York-born son of an Irish mother and a Cuban father, he was a charismatic writer, singer ...

“To Athene then. Young Gnossos Pappadopoulis, furry Pooh Bear, keeper of the flame, voyaged back from the asphalt seas of the great wasted land: oh highways U.S. 40 and unyielding 66, I am home ...

She had a groundbreaking folk duo with her husband, Richard Farina, in the 1960s but was perhaps best known for founding Bread & Roses in 1974. The organization produced 500 shows annually for ...