Danbury, CT:

Peter Yarrow has made his voice a vehicle -- to spread the sounds of folk music, to protest the war in Vietnam, and to encourage kids to be kind. And the words of the most familiar songs he's written, and of those he's performed with Peter, Paul and Mary, are etched in hearts around the world.

Yarrow brings his songs and guitar to Newtown May 22 as a guest at the season finale of the Flagpole Radio Cafe at Edmond Town Hall Theatre.

"Singing is an experience in openness and vulnerability -- vulnerability in a positive sense,'' Yarrow said in a phone interview recently. "If we're not closed down, if there are no walls, it's very meaningful."

Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey, and the late Mary Travers began their collaboration in New York City's Greenwich Village in the 1960s. Much of their repertoire addressed the country's most pressing social issues. They performed at some of the crucial moments in the country's history, like Dr. Martin Luther King's March on Washington and national war protests.

"It was an extraordinary time of dedication and community and tenacity," said Yarrow, of the anti-war and social rallies in which the trio joined. "We were fueled by a level of energy that was pretty astonishing. For some of us, it's really never abated.''


(Local web news)