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Fariña became a good friend of Dylan; their friendship is a major topic of David Hajdu's book, Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña. Fariña then travelled to Europe, where he met Mimi Baez, the teenage sister of Joan Baez, in the spring of 1962. Hester divorced Fariña soon ...
- Richard George Fariña, March 8, 1937, New York City, U.S.
- Folk
- April 30, 1966 (aged 29), Carmel, California, U.S.
- Counterculture
Mar 25, 2016 · Richard Fariña was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1937 to an Irish mother and a Cuban father. He studied at Cornell University – sharing a room with Thomas Pynchon – and after leaving ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Richard Fariña was an American folk singer and novelist who, with his wife, Mimi Fariña, played a significant role in the folk music revival of the 1960s. Fariña studied engineering and literature at Cornell University and reputedly served with the Irish Republican Army in the mid-1950s and later
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Richard Fariña. Richard George Fariña was an American writer and folksinger. With an Irish mother and a Cuban father, Farina was born a rebel. He grew up in Brooklyn, pre-revolutionary Cuba and Ireland. At 18 he was associated with members of the IRA, and was asked to leave Ireland. At Cornell University in the late fifties Farina was ...
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- April 30, 1966
- March 8, 1937
Jul 10, 2023 · He was 29. It’s usually the first thing that’s revealed. April 30, 1966, the day of his 21-year-old wife’s birthday, Mimi, the younger sister of folk star Joan Baez. That’s also worth a mention. Richard Fariña was on the cusp of fame the day he flew off the back of a friend’s motorcycle and died on impact in California’s Carmel ...
- Mariella Rudi
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Apr 29, 2016 · Richard Fariña’s Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me turns fifty. I am gazing, as I write, at a black-and-white photograph of Richard Fariña with his wife, Mimi (née Baez) Fariña, taken backstage at the Newport Folk Festival nine months before his death—fifty years ago this week—at the age of twenty-nine. To call the photo […]
Aug 12, 2016 · Folk hero: Richard Fariña’s wild ride from Tyrone to Greenwich The late writer and musician made a big impression in the 1960s, whether playing with Bob Dylan or fishing in Ireland.
