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Home
About Holly
Biography
Timeline
Holly’s Music
Catalog
The Near Sisters
Live at the Freight & Salvage DVD
Singing For Our Lives DVD
2018
Peace Becomes You
We Came to Sing!
Sing to Me the Dream
Show Up
Edge
And Still We Sing
Simply Love
HARP
Lifeline Extended
Crushed
Early Warnings
Cris & Holly
With a Song in My Heart
This Train Still Runs
Musical Highlights
Reissues
Hang In There
Sky Dances
Watch Out!
Speed Of Light
Fire in the Rain
Imagine My Surprise
A Live Album
You Can Know All I Am
Historic
Singer in the Storm
Don’t Hold Back
Singing With You
Journeys
Holly’s Store
Art & Activism
Photos
Tour
Booking
1968
Plays lead in Guys and Dolls at UCLA, gets laryngitis, discovers she has nodules on vocal cords
1968
Goes into several weeks of silence to heal vocal cords, works with a voice teacher in Philadelphia who suggests Holly study to be an opera singer. Holly declines.
1968
Back in LA, Holly works with Another Mother For Peace in Beverly Hills, alongside her sister, Timothy Near.
1968
Holly and Timothy sing in a few prisons. Very challenging.
1968
Gets job in her first film, Angel, Angel Down We Go
1969
Lives in Venice, California. Continues working in film and TV – Partridge Family, Mod Squad. Tries to balance Hollywood life and racial strife in Venice.
1969
Lands spot in Broadway cast of Hair. Cast does silent vigil in response to Kent State massacre.
1970
Returns to California to do a film, The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart. Holly tells a friend, “Women’s lib is OK for women who need it.” Lives long enough to laugh at that remark.
1971
Attends a meeting with her sister Timothy, put on by Hollywood people who want to oppose the war – EIPJ – Entertainment Industry for Peace and Justice.
1971
Auditions for Free the Army; cast includes Michael Alaimo
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