Joan Baez News

Joan Baez, left, and Bob Dylan perform at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, R.I. in 1963.

'After what happened in the last hundred years, the simple fact that we are here today is a political statement.

It is the pure voice from outside the Qasr Al-Nil Cinema Theatre in downtown Cairo that captures passers-by. Although it is still a few hours prior to the concert and technicians still work on fine-tuning sound and light, there she stood gracefully - guitar in hand - and a voice so strong and pure, undisrupted by the sound adjustments.

Joan Baez is known as being an legendary folk singer and activist, for her entire career she has been organizing sit ins and has been involved in many protests.

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 family members had gathered at the Baez home to celebrate Ms.

Musicians Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, Richie Havens, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan perform the finale of the The Rolling Thunder Revue, a tour headed by Dylan.