Crossings brings Peter Yarrow to Zumbrota's State Theatre on Thursday, April 24, at 7:00 pm. Tickets are $35 in advance, $38 at the door, and can be purchased online or by calling 507-732-7616. Doors open at 6:30 pm.
Answering the requests of enthusiastic audience members, Crossings brings Peter Yarrow of legendary folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary back to Zumbrota's State Theatre. Yarrow is a singer and songwriter whose social commentary has always been part of his music and his life.
Yarrow co-wrote one of Peter, Paul and Mary’s most famous songs, “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” and his songwriting also worked its magic with “Day is Done,” “Light One Candle,” and “The Great Mandala.” The trio earned a 1996 Emmy nomination for the Great Performances special “LifeLines Live,” a highly acclaimed celebration of folk music. The trio enjoyed a career that spanned nearly 50 years, and early on became an icon of folk music of the 1960s.
Music was part of Yarrow’s upbringing; he graduated from what was then called the High School of Music and Art in New York City. He graduated from Cornell University in 1959 and met Noel “Paul” Stookey and Mary Travers in New York City's Greenwich Village at a time when American folk music was experiencing a revival.
The trio’s first album, “Peter, Paul & Mary,” was released in 1962 and remained in the Top Ten for 10 months and in the Top Twenty for two years. More than two million copies sold.
Also a political activist, Yarrow has voiced his opposition to the Vietnam War, sought to instill character training in public education, and founded Operation Respect with a mission to “assure each child and youth a respectful, safe and compassionate climate of learning where their academic, social and emotional development can take place free of bullying, ridicule and violence.”
Yarrow has also turned his attention to encouraging folk music and musicians through a key role in founding the New Folks Concert series at both the Newport Folk Festival and the Kerrville Folk Festival.
The State Theatre is located at 96 East 4th Street in Zumbrota. For more information call 507-732-5210.