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Stookey mar­ried Eliz­a­beth "Betty" Ban­nard in 1963 and they have three daughters. After rais­ing their fam­ily in Blue Hill, Maine, the cou­ple lived for sev­eral years in Mass­a­chu­setts while Betty served as the North­field Mount Her­mon School chap­lain, and in 2005, they re­turned to Maine. Stookey orig­i­nally recorded his solo al­bums in ...

Peter, Paul and Mary

Per­form­ing as Paul in the Peter, Paul and Mary trio, he par­tic­i­pated in one of the best-known en­sem­bles of the 1960s phase of the Amer­i­can folk music re­vival, and in­cluded some of his solo songs and ex­tended mono­logues in their per­for­mances and record­ings. In ad­di­tion to his record­ings with the trio, he re­leased a num­ber of solo works, sev­eral al­bums with the en­sem­ble Body­works, and some an­tholo­gies. He was an im­por­tant artist in the young Jesus music move­ment,...

Solo career

Dur­ing 1971 and 1972 Warner re­leased a self-ti­tled debut solo album by each mem­ber of the group. Each of these had sim­i­larly styled cover art. Stookey's album, ti­tled "Paul, and", was the high­est chart­ing of the three. It reached #42 on the Bill­board 200chart in the United States in Sep­tem­ber 1971. Stookey's best-known com­po­si­tion "The Wed­ding Song (There Is Love)" was in­cluded on his debut solo album. The song was also re­leased as a sin­gle which charted in the Bill­board H...

After Peter, Paul and Mary

Paul per­formed as a mem­ber of Peter, Paul and Mary until the death of Mary in Sep­tem­ber 2009. His work after Peter, Paul and Maryhas em­pha­sized his Chris­t­ian faith, fam­ily life and so­cial con­cerns. He re­mains ac­tive in the music in­dus­try, per­form­ing as a solo act, and also per­form­ing oc­ca­sion­ally with Peter Yarrow. In 2000 Noel and his daugh­ter, Eliz­a­beth Stookey Sunde, founded the non­profit Music to Life, which builds on the strong his­tor­i­cal legacy of so­cial mo...