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 ...

The late folk artist and social activist Mimi Fariña’s memory and legacy live on in Bread & Roses, the organization she founded to bring music and entertainment to isolated populations. According to ...

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 ...

Marin's most beloved comedian, Michael Pritchard, who gave up a Hollywood career for a life of volunteerism, has a favorite new saying borrowed from Winston Churchill: "You earn a living with what you ...

Farina, the younger sister of folksinger Joan Baez, was a talented singer in her own right. She recorded two albums with her husband, Richard, before his death in a motorcycle accident in 1966. After ...

I read with interest the Chronicle Classic “A Plug for Mimi” originally written by Gerald Nachman in 1979 and republished on Nov. 2. Chronicle readers might be interested to know that Bread & Roses is ...

A new book by David Hajdu describes the heyday of folk music in Greenwich Village and the relationships between stars like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Richard and Mimi Farina. NPR's Melissa Block takes ...

"Positively Fourth Street" is one of the most rapturously spiteful pop songs of the 1960s. Recorded by Bob Dylan four days after he enraged folk loyalists at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival by ...

Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s , by Nick Bromell. The University of Chicago Press, 225 pages, $22.50. For those of us now in our late 40’s or our 50’s-at least those of us ...

Mimi Baez Farina, singer, sister of folk star Joan Baez and founder of the Bread and Roses organization that brought free live music performances to the sick and imprisoned, died July 18 of cancer at ...