Joan Baez

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US singers Joan Baez, Lou Reed and Suzanne Vega performed Saturday at a concert in Prague paying homage to former Czech president Vaclav Havel, a hero of the Velvet Revolution 20 years ago. Read More

PRAGUE, Czech Republic—American singers Joan Baez, Lou Reed and Suzanne Vega performed Saturday at a concert in Prague paying homage to former Czech president Vaclav Havel, a hero of the Velvet Revolution 20 years ago. Read More

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As a pioneer in the civil rights movement, Joan Baez was called upon to make appearances and give performances at African-American universities in the south -- even if they didn't necessarily know who she was. Read More

For most of the fifty years since she debuted at the Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez has dedicated her life and music to fighting for equality and social justice, and for bringing about positive change in the world. Read More

Joan Baez sings every song like it might be her last, packing raw emotion and passion into every line. Read More

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The life and career, from childhood — as member of a happy family that traveled far and wide — to her days in Cambridge at the outset of the folk movement; stardom, then alliance with the civil rights and antiwar movements — she was among the most ubiquitous and itinerant protesters of the age, popping up wherever there was a cause. Read More

Her future boyfriend and sometime musical partner Bob Dylan was still in high school in Minnesota when Joan Baez first played Club 47 in Cambridge, Mass., in 1958 at age 17. Read More