Mimi

[Dave Meury]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Singer and social activist Mimi Farina, who with 
her sister and fellow singer Joan Baez was a member of "folk royalty'' in 
the 1960s but left behind a music career to devote herself to charitable 
work, died of cancer on Wednesday at her home in Marin County, California. 
She was 56.

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I saw Mimi Farina perform sometime in the mid '80s in a little bar in 
Duval, WA, a rural small town outside of Seattle, populated by farmers, 
bikers, and Boeing blue-collar types (I managed a school bookstore back 
then).  Not too many Microsoft country squires out that way at the time but 
I've been told that's changed.

Why she was there mystified me.  Though I'm not a folk music enthusiast, I 
was apparently so enthralled that she commented once between numbers about 
the moony looks she was getting from some in the audience (me, for sure).

There's no point to this story other than to say I'm deeply saddened by the 
news of her passing.

Dave