Mary Travers dies at the age of 72 in Connecticut
Mary Travers, shown in 2006 file photo, died at the age of 72 in a Danbury, Connecticut hospital of leukemia on September 17, 2009. Travers was a member of the popular 1960's folk group 'Peter, Paul and Mary'. UPI/Ezio Petersen/Files
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Rock music photographer Barry Feinstein, who shot iconic album covers for musicians such as Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin, has died in Kingston, N.Y.
Folk singer Mary Travers has died at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut following complications from leukemia treatment, her representative said. She was 72.
Peter, Paul and Mary singer Mary Travers met her Michigan bone marrow donor, a year after the transplant that saved her from dying of leukemia.
Mary Travers will join Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey for their annual New York holiday concert, seven months after undergoing a bone marrow transplant.
Singer Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & Mary is undergoing treatment for leukemia but expects a full recovery, E! Online reported.
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Today's birthdays include jazz trumpeter Al Hirt, who was born in 1922; Mary Travers of Peter Paul and Mary in 1937 (age 65); Dee Clark in 1938; Johnny Rivers in 1942 (age 60); Joni Mitchell in 1943 (age 59); and Nick Gilder in 1951 (age 51).
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