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folk music stories: 4 news summaries

Singer Wouldn't Have Wanted Coyotes Killed: Mom

Taylor Mitchell was huge nature lover

Oct 30, 09 7:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Taylor Mitchell, the 19-year-old Canadian singer killed by coyotes on a hike Tuesday, was such a nature lover that she would have wanted to spare the coyotes, her mom says. “When the decision had been made to kill the pack of coyotes, I clearly heard Taylor's voice say, 'Please... More »

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Canada • animal attack • coyote • singer • Nova Scotia • folk music • Taylor Mitchell

 Coyotes Kill Canadian Singer 

Teen folk musician attacked in national park

Oct 29, 09 3:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - A rising star of the Canadian folk music scene was killed in a savage coyote attack while hiking alone in Nova Scotia. Singer-songwriter Taylor Mitchell, 19, suffered multiple bite wounds and massive blood loss after a pair of coyotes pounced on her. She died a day later in a local... More »

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Canada • singers • country music • animal attack • coyote • Nova Scotia • folk music • Taylor Mitchell

obituary

'Voice of Latin America' Mercedes Sosa Dead at 74

Argentine folk singer gave voice to disenfranchised under repressive regimes

Oct 4, 09 2:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mercedes Sosa, the Argentine folk singer who became a powerful voice of resistance to authoritarian Latin American regimes, died today in Buenos Aires. A leading light of the "nueva canción" (new song) movement that pushed for social justice in the 1960s and '70s, Sosa was 74. "... More »

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entertainment • music • Latin America • Argentina • folk music • Mercedes Sosa • contralto • folk singer

OBITUARY

Mary Travers, of Peter, Paul and Mary, Dead at 72

Member of folk trio had been battling leukemia

Sep 16, 09 8:27 PM CDT
(AP) - Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died today after a battle with leukemia, the band's publicist says. She was 72. Travers joined forces with Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey in the early 1960s. The trio mingled their music with liberal politics,... More »

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entertainment • obituary • leukemia • Peter, Paul and Mary • Mary Travers • folk music

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