Our theme on this week’s edition of Stranger Songs is Remembering Mimi Fariña. Mimi – the younger sister of Joan Baez and the musical partner and widow of important singer, songwriter and author Richard Fariña – passed away 20 years ago this week on July 18, 2001 from cancer at the young age of 56. Most of the show is devoted to a concert recorded in 1988 for German radio.
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy 
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| Pack Up Your Sorrows Mimi & Richard Fariña - Celebrations for a Grey Day - Vanguard |
| Mimi Fariña was an activist and in 1974, she founded a non-profit organization called Bread & Roses in the San Francisco Bay area that presents more than 600 concerts per year in institutions ranging from children's day care centres and special needs schools, to hospitals, adult and juvenile detention facilities, homeless shelters, adult recovery centers, nursing homes and seniors’ day centres. Mimi named her organization Bread & Roses after reading James Oppenheim’s poem, "Bread & Roses," written in honor of the women garment workers on strike in 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The strike became known as the "Bread & Roses Strike" because of its slogan – “Give us bread, but give us roses, too.” Mimi set the poem to music and it became the title song of Judy Collins’ 1976 album, "Bread and Roses." |
| Bread and Roses Judy Collins - Bread and Roses - Elektra |
| The concert by Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger -- recorded February 2nd, 1988 by Michael Kleff for German radio -- is available on a CD called "Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses." It is available from the Bread & Roses website. https://www.breadandroses.org/post/benefit-cd-for-bread-roses-presents-features-mimi-fari%C3%B1a-with-lowell-levinger |
| Best of Friends Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger - Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses - Dogfish Music |
| Children of Darkness Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger - Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses - Dogfish Music |
| I Can See Clearly Now Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger - Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses - Dogfish Music |
| Dandelion Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger - Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses - Dogfish Music |
| Old Woman Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger - Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses - Dogfish Music |
| Dog Blue Mimi & Richard Fariña - Celebrations for a Grey Day - Vanguard |
| Mr. Rudy Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger - Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses - Dogfish Music |
| Come Get Me Shoes Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger - Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses - Dogfish Music |
| Less Than the Song Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger - Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses - Dogfish Music |
| Deep Feelings Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger - Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses - Dogfish Music |
| Sad Cities Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger - Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses - Dogfish Music |
| Mama Tried Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger - Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses - Dogfish Music |
| If My Eyes Were Blind Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger - Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses - Dogfish Music |
| Big Party Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger - Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses - Dogfish Music |
| Daniel Prayed Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger - Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses - Dogfish Music |
| Defying Gravity Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger - Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses - Dogfish Music
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| Sweet Sir Galahad Joan Baez - Live at Woodstock - Craft |
| The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood Pete Seeger - God Bless the Grass - Columbia/Legacy |
| Birmingham Sunday Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway - Nonesuch |
| Reflections in a Crystal Wind Caroline Doctorow - Another Country: The Songs of Mimi and Richard Fariña - Narrow Lane |
| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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Great to so much Mimi (and Richard) Farina. Thanks.
4:03 PM, July 20th, 2021