From the Associated Press, July 19, 2001:

Mimi Farina

SAN FRANCISCO -- Mimi Farina, sister of folk singer Joan Baez and founder of an organization that brought free live music to the sick and imprisoned, died Wednesday of complications related to cancer. She was 56.

She founded Bread & Roses in 1974. The organization produced 500 shows annually for audiences in senior centers, psychiatric, rehabilitation and correctional facilities as well as centers for abused and neglected children.

Long part of the San Francisco Bay area's folk music elite as a singer herself, Farina drew many fellow musical luminaries to take part in performances. Her sister, Jackson Browne, Taj Mahal, Bonnie Raitt and Peter, Paul and Mary all volunteered their services.

Farina was the youngest of three daughters and was raised a Quaker alongside siblings Joan Baez and Pauline Bryan.

She learned the guitar during the folk music revival of the late 1950s and frequently played the folk scene around Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass