Maggie and Terre Roche

Folksinging sisters Maggie Roche and her two-years-younger sister Terre were born in New York City and grew up mostly in New Jersey. For Christmas 1964, 13-year-old Maggie was given a guitar, and the family (also including a third sister, Suzzy, and a brother, David) learned to play folk songs by watching Laura Weber on public television. As teenagers in the late '60s, Maggie & Terre formed a duo and got their first break when they were signed to Marilyn Lipsius' Coffee House Circuit, an agency that booked acts at colleges. In 1971, Maggie boldly introduced herself to her song...