After yesterday's memorial service for Mimi Farina at Grace Cathedral, when the crowd of 2,000 had filed outside and gathered in the sunshine of the courtyard to share their personal memories, men ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... One unforgettable day in 1974, a lovely young folk singer named Mimi Fariña came to my office in Mill Valley to tell me about a nonprofit she had just ...

Mimi Farina, Joan Baez's sister and an accomplished folk singer in her own right and founder of an organization that brought free live music to the sick and imprisoned, has died. She was 56. By ...

Fifty years of working to bring live music to people, young and old, shut away in hospitals, prisons or institutions is a milestone worth celebrating. That’s the impressive work of Bread & Roses, a ...

Her body gave up the struggle on Wednesday, but Mimi Farina's soul will remain a component of the Bread & Roses musical fabric for decades. Farina could hardly have foreseen her emergence as the ...

MIMI FARINA, who has died aged 56, was an American folk singer who recorded two memorable albums but ended her life equally well known as the driving force behind Bread and Roses, a radical ...

GREAT BARRINGTON -- One day during her time as a student at Amherst's Hampshire College, Caroline Doctorow happened upon an unexpected houseguest when she returned to her parents' home in New Rochelle ...

She may never have achieved the celebrity of her elder sister, Joan Baez, but the singer and charity worker Mimi Farina, who has died of cancer aged 56, was no less a stirring personality and ...

Mimi Fariña pictured at the Bread & Roses office in 1984. (Tom Strickland/IJ archive) Mimi Fariña performs at San Francisco’s Stern Grove in the 1970s. (Photo by Ty Yurgelevic) Jasmine Harris, with ...

Mimi Farina, 56, who took part with her sister, Joan Baez, in the burgeoning folk music revival of 40 years ago and later organized concerts for the sick and imprisoned, died July 18 at her home in ...

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