A music festival has disinvited folk singer Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary over his 1970 jail sentence for indecent liberties with a 14-year-old girl.
in upstate New York cited negative reaction to Yarrow on social media in their decision to remove Yarrow from the festival’s lineup.
The 81-year-old Yarrow was to appear Sept. 8 with a performance painter. A replacement has not been announced. Yarrow was sentenced to three months in jail over a 1969 episode in which the 14-year-old and her 17-year-old sister went to his hotel seeking an autograph and he answered the door naked. Former President Jimmy Carter pardoned Yarrow in 1981.
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