In the late sixties and early seventies, America's youth were making headlines: Kent State, Woodstock, San Francisco's flower children. The Jesus movement had just started with kids being baptized in the Pacific Ocean and pictures of Christ on the covers of Time and Newsweek . Billy Graham had written a book called The Jesus Generation . Folk music was beginning to fade and bluegrass rock was coming in. But groups like the Kingston Trio and the New Christy Minstrels were still pretty big on the national music scene.

"I'll never forget the excitement of being in L.A., knowing that I had made the auditions and that I was going to be part of a national group. Five of us were new to the Christy's - three girls and two guys - and when we knew we'd made it, we rented a little Volkswagen and drove all over Hollywood and Los Angeles, waving at everybody we saw and calling out, 'Hi, we're the New Christy Minstrels!'