Mimi & Richard Farina and Pete Seeger perform "Pack Up Your Sorrows" on episode 16 of Rainbow Quest (https://archive.org/details/RainbowQuest16). Rainbow Quest was a television program produced for one series run in 1965 and 1966 by the Advertisers Broadcasting Company for UHF station WNJU-TV in the New York City market.
Mimi and Richard Fariña live at Rainbow Quest with Pete Seeger (February 26th 1966)
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Pete Seeger asks her what she is ‘doing these days’, she answers ‘me, um… singing and dancing’ with a shy smile.
"For most mid-1960s cult artists, we have to take the word of those who were there as to the performers’ live magnetism, and leave it at that. Fortunately, a remarkable, if rarely seen, testament to the Farinas’ live musicianship survives on that episode of Rainbow Quest, almost certainly filmed in late 1965 or early 1966. On a bare-bones set that couldn t seem to make up its mind whether it was emulating an indoor kitchen or outdoor picnic area, genial host Pete Seeger was joined by a quiet Mimi Farina—wearing a long dark dress, with white trimming on top, of almost Amish severity—and the more ebullient Richard Farina, wearing the expected dark sweater. Mimi both tapped her feet on the floor and her hand against the body of the guitar to set the beat of an exhilarating six-minute instrumental combining elements of V. and Celebrations for a Grey Day,” inciting Seeger to join in on maracas and deliver a high-pitched whoop at its hectic conclusion. “I was waiting for you to start singing,” said Seeger, almost apologetically, “and then I realized the whole point of it was the rhythm, and I couldn’t keep still. I hope you don’t mind my joining in. It would take a dead man not to move on that.”
The Farinas proceeded to uncork a highly charged “Bold Marauder,” “Pack Up Your Sorrows” (joined by Seeger on guitar), and the then-unreleased “Joy ‘Round My Brain,” Richard infectiously scatting between letting out bursts of harmonica and harmonizing uplifting choruses with his wife. Richard took advantage of some chat time to speak at some length about Joan Baez’s newly founded institute for the study of nonviolence, at which both he and Mimi worked and studied —not the usual dialogue broadcast on television in 1965-66, even on educational TV (not that Seeger was at all unhappy to discuss the topic). When the conversation turned to music, Seeger astutely pointed out, “This traditional instrument, you’re playing it in a new way, combining two or three old traditions, aren’t you. You’re playing a Kentucky mountain dulcimer. It was only supposed to be played traditionally, traditionally, traditionally. Now I see you’re playing counterrhythms to Mimi. She’ll be playing in 6/8 time, she’ll be playing in 3/4 time. And then you start accelerating the tempo as though you were playing an Indian sitar. And it puts me in mind of the fact that this is gonna happen all around the world, for good or bad.”
1970
Mimi and Katherine Ross sing Mimi's song "If You Love" on the soundtrack of this movie. Mimi appears briefly in the beginning of the film, singing this song and playing guitar, but the song in its entirety appears only on this soundtrack (which is not available on CD).
Interview with Mimi Farina in 1988 as an Honoree of the Marin Womens Hall of Fame for her non-profit organization Bread and Roses. This clip is from www.marinwomen.org
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Another tv appearance, on Sunday Morning Show.
Unfortunately i've never seen this interview.
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