Joan Baez

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• AP Interview: Joan Baez returns to past in Vietnam

  -- At 72, Joan Baez is not short of events to anticipate: She has her mother's 100th birthday party, a tour of Australia and a new passion -- painting -- to explore. But the folk singer and social activist has spent a few days reliving her past, returning   Read more »

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• Wolf Trap Presents Joan Baez and Indigo Girls, The Go-Go’s with Special Guest The Psychedelic Furs, Celtic Woman, Bill Cosby, and the 24th Annual Louisiana Swamp Romp™

  The Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts Folk powerhouses Joan Baez and Indigo Girls share the Filene Center stage in an evening of heartfelt tunes and earnest lyrics. The performance kicks off with acclaimed singer/songwriter 5/23/13 from PRWeb Read more »

• Music Review: Emel Mathlouthi at the French Institute’s Tunisia Festival

  The song has a forthright, steadily rising melody in a major key; it’s easy to imagine it being sung by Joan Baez, one of Ms. Mathlouthi’s early role models. On Wednesday she began it quietly, almost like a lullaby, and carried it toward a clarion fervor 5/23/13 from The New York Times Music Read more »

• ECHO Entertainment News: Preview: Thea Gilmore at the Philharmonic Hall

  Thea Gilmore's fans include Bruce Springsteen, Richard Thompson, Joan Baez and Neil Gaiman. Last summer she and her posthumous Sandy Denny collaboration, London, were all over the Olympics coverage. But at the same time she was donating free music to the   from Liverpool Echo Read more »

• Joan Baez Sr., mother of the famed folksinger, dies Saturday at age 100

  Woodside resident Joan Chandos Baez, the mother of famed folk singer and Woodside resident Joan Baez, died at home on Saturday, April 20, just a few days after her 100th birthday, her daughter Joan said in a posting at JoanBaez.com. Some 50 friends and f   from Almanac News  Read more »

• Folk icon Richie Havens dies

  NEW YORK - Richie Havens, the folk singer and guitarist who was the first performer at Woodstock, died Monday at age 72. Richie Havens’ last album was “Nobdy Left to Crown,” released in 2008. “I really sing songs that move me,” he said in an interview. I   from The Portland Maine Press Herald Read more »