Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... One unforgettable day in 1974, a lovely young folk singer named Mimi Fariña came to my office in Mill Valley to tell me about a nonprofit she had just ...

The late folk artist and social activist Mimi Fariña’s memory and legacy live on in Bread & Roses, the organization she founded to bring music and entertainment to isolated populations. According to ...

Mimi Farina, 56, who took part with her sister, Joan Baez, in the burgeoning folk music revival of 40 years ago and later organized concerts for the sick and imprisoned, died July 18 at her home in ...

I read with interest the Chronicle Classic “A Plug for Mimi” originally written by Gerald Nachman in 1979 and republished on Nov. 2. Chronicle readers might be interested to know that Bread & Roses is ...

A new book by David Hajdu describes the heyday of folk music in Greenwich Village and the relationships between stars like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Richard and Mimi Farina. NPR's Melissa Block takes ...

Mimi Baez Farina, singer, sister of folk star Joan Baez and founder of the Bread and Roses organization that brought free live music performances to the sick and imprisoned, died July 18 of cancer at ...