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"Big Joan" Baez, mother of folksinger, dies after 100th birthday - The official site of Joan Baez has noted the passing of Joan's mother, Joan Baez, Sr. The senior Joan died just a week after the celebration of her 100th birthday. Read More

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Boulder, CO Chautauqua Auditorium Sat Jun 01 / 13 Find Tickets
Arvada, CO Arvada Center Sun Jun 02 / 13 Find Tickets
Salina, KS Stiefel Theatre Tue Jun 04 / 13 Find Tickets
Apple Valley, MN Weesner Family Amphitheater Thu Jun 06 / 13 Find Tickets
Madison, WI Capitol Square Fri Jun 07 / 13 Find Tickets
Highland Park, IL Ravinia Pavilion Sun Jun 09 / 13 Find Tickets
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Atlanta, GA Chastain Park Amphitheatre Fri Jun 14 / 13 Find Tickets
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New York, NY Rumsey Playfield - Central Park Mon Jun 17 / 13 Find Tickets
New York, NY Central Park Summerstage Mon Jun 17 / 13 Find Tickets
Newark, NJ New Jersey Performing Arts Center Wed Jun 19 / 13 Find Tickets
Philadelphia, PA Mann Center for the Performing… Thu Jun 20 / 13 Find Tickets
Bethel, NY Bethel Woods Center For The Arts Sat Jun 22 / 13 Find Tickets
Lenox, MA Tanglewood Sun Jun 23 / 13 Find Tickets
Portland, ME State Theatre Wed Jun 26 / 13 Find Tickets
Lowell, MA Boarding House Park Fri Jun 28 / 13 Find Tickets
New Bedford, MA Zeiterion Performing Arts Center Sat Jun 29 / 13 Find Tickets
Melbourne Hamer Hall - Arts Centre Fri Aug 09 / 13 Find Tickets
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Joan Baez (born January 9, 1941 as Joan Chandos Báez) is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician, and a prominent activist. Baez has a distinctive vocal style, with a strong vibrato. Her recordings include many topical songs and material dealing with social issues. Baez began her career performing in coffeehouses in Boston and Cambridge, and rose to fame as an unbilled performer at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. She began her recording career in 1960, and achieved immediate success. Her first three albums, ''Joan Baez'', ''Joan Baez, Vol. 2'', and ''Joan Baez in Concert'' all achieved gold record status, and stayed on the charts of hit albums for two years. Baez has had a popular hit song with "Diamonds & Rust" and hit covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Other songs associated with Baez include "Farewell, Angelina", "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word", "Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "We Shall Overcome". She performed three of the songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, helped to bring the songs of Bob Dylan to national prominence, and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, human rights and the environment. Baez has performed publicly for over 55 years, releasing over 30 albums. Fluent in Spanish as well as in English, she has also recorded songs in at least six other languages. She is regarded as a folk singer, although her music has diversified since the 1960s, encompassing everything from folk rock and pop to country and gospel music. Although a songwriter herself, Baez is generally regarded as an interpreter of other people's work, having recorded songs by The Allman Brothers Band, The Beatles, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Violeta Parra, Woody Guthrie, The Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder and many others. In recent years, she has found success interpreting songs of modern songwriters such as Ryan Adams, Josh Ritter, Steve Earle and Natalie Merchant.

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Songbird unknown 2011-01-10 itunes amazon
How Sweet the Sound Soundtrack 2009 itunes amazon
Day After Tomorrow Album 2008-09-08 itunes amazon
One Day At A Time Album 2005-09-13 itunes amazon
Bowery Songs Album 2005-09-06 itunes amazon
The Best of the Vanguard Years Compilation 2005-02-07 itunes amazon
Dark Chords on a Big Guitar Album 2003-09-08 itunes amazon
The Complete A&M Recordings Compilation 2003 itunes amazon
Classic Joan Baez Compilation 2000 itunes amazon
Baez Sings Dylan Compilation 1998-06-23 itunes amazon
Pickup Artist Vocal Album 1998 itunes amazon
Really the Best Compilation 1997 itunes amazon
Gone From Danger Album 1997 itunes amazon
Live at Newport Live 1996-09-17 itunes amazon
Greatest Hits Compilation 1996-05-07 itunes amazon
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