Trivia

Kevin Bacon is her first cousin.

Has written hundreds of songs and recorded 16 albums, alone and in collaboration.

Accomplished songwriter and folksinger. Her composition "Singing For Our Lives" appears in "Singing the Living Tradition", the official hymnal of the Unitarian Universalist Association, under the title "We Are A Gentle, Angry People" .

Went on a cross-country protest tour with Jane Fonda in 1970.

Considered an ambassador of peace, she was named "Woman of the Year" in 1985 by Ms. Magazine.

Began her career on stage (the musical-comedy troupe "First National Nothing", Broadway's "Hair"), TV ("The Mod Squad") and film ("Slaughterhouse Five") before focusing full time on her political activism through her music.

Her Redwood recording label has been the prolific center for alternative music since 1972. Pete Seeger, Bonnie Raitt, Arlo Guthrie and Peter, Paul and Mary have are only a few of the label's stream of politically-conscious artists and peace activists. Redwood has since closed, but tracks from the records issued by Redwood are available on CD from her website.

The "guest speaker" at the Cathedral of Hope on Sunday, September 16th 2007. The Cathedral of Hope is the largest LGBT church in the world...

Sister of Laurel Near and Timothy Near.

"Fire in the Rain....Singer in the Storm" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 1992 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Production.

She was awarded the 1992 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for "Fire in the Rain...Singer in the Storm" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.