[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Travers, like Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, saw folk music both as an art and as an instrument for change. They sang a number of sociopolitical songs, which Travers later defended. ***

I saw a program years ago about how the commies and socialists looked for a musical way to get their message out. They chose the American Folk song as the medium and groups like the WEAVERS and PP&M to do it.

People in the 1960’s jokingly referred to them as “two queers and a lesbian.”

[Retired COB]

People in the 1960’s jokingly referred to them as “two queers and a lesbian.”

I had heard that one of the guys was Jewish, one a Penticostal Preacher, and as the article says Mary had two daughters so I would doubt the lesbian description.

Like most here I didn't like their politics, but did enjoy the sound.

[hellbender]

The Weavers really were communists, and yes, the Party felt that American Tin Pan Alley pop music was a capitalist thing, while folk music was proletarian. I think PPM were more in the useful idiot category.

"If I had a hammer...."