b. Mimi Margharita Baez, 30 April 1945, Palo Alto, California, USA, d. 18 July 2001, Mt. Tamalpais, California, USA. The younger sister of folk singer Joan Baez, Mimi was pursuing a solo career when she met and married Richard Fari¤a. The couple began performing together in 1964 and completed two exceptional albums, Celebrations For A Grey Day and Reflections In A Crystal Wind, before Richard was killed in a motorcycle accident on 30 April 1966. Two years later Mimi helped to compile the commemorative Memories, as well as Long Time Coming And A Long Time Gone, a collection of her husband's lyrics, poetry and short stories. Unsure of direction, she later joined the Committee, a satirical theatre group, where she worked as an improvisational actor before returning to singing. Having forged a short-lived partnership with Tom Jans, which resulted in one low-key album, she resumed her solo career. The consuming passion of Fari¤a's later years was Bread And Roses, an organization which brought live music into convalescent homes, psychiatric wards and drug rehabilitation centres.

Listen to Mimi Farina at Finetune.

• (1999)  Pack Up Your Sorrows
• (1986)  Solo

• Dandelion River Run
• A Swallow Song
• Reno Nevada
• Pack Up Your Sorrows
• Another Country

• Joan Baez
• Donovan
• Gordon Lightfoot
• Leonard Cohen
• Guy Clark
• Tom Paxton
• Tim Hardin
• Peter, Paul and Mary
• Indigo Girls
• Nanci Griffith
• Buffy Sainte-Marie
• The Kingston Trio
• Al Petteway
• Dave Van Ronk
• Frank Christian
• Tom Russell
• John Martyn
• Richard Thompson
• Pete Seeger
• Bob Dylan

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