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Faith Petric

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Friends of Petric have described her as the "Fort Knox of folk music," for her ability to recall the lyrics of thousands of songs. Petric wrote a regular column for
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magazine. In a 2011 interview, Petric noted that, "Just because you are old doesn't mean the creativity goes away," planning to sing for as long as she was able.
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did a tour in Petric's honor, dubbing it the "Keep the Faith" tour. The tour included Petric's birthplace,
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in 1970, after her daughter finished college, to focus on music full-time. She co-founded the
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On October 24, 2013, Petric died of natural causes at the age of 98.
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while she was a teenager and she was subsequently sent to live in a
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as "a central figure of the San Francisco folk music scene."
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Nothing in Common: An Oral History of IWW Strikes 1971–1992
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and later lent her voice to various causes, joining the
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minister, taught her and her three siblings how to sing
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Index

Orofino, Idaho
San Francisco, California
Folk music
folk singer
activist
San Francisco Folk Music Club
SF Gate
log cabin
Orofino, Idaho
Methodist
hymns
pump organ
western songs
divorced
boardinghouse
Whitman College
Walla Walla, Washington
San Francisco
Mexico
peace movement
Selma to Montgomery marches
gay
guitar
Great Depression
World War II
Rosie the Riveter
Liberty ships
New Jersey
Haight-Ashbury
California State Department of Rehabilitation

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