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August 12, 2009: Folk Singer Defuses Potential Confrontation at Idaho Health Care Reform Rally
Folk singer Joan Baez discusses health care reform with a reform opponent. [Source: Dutch Shots] Folk singer Joan Baez, who made a reputation as a staunch progressive anti-war protester in the Vietnam War era, confronts angry health care reform opponents at a pro-reform concert and rally in Idaho Falls, Idaho, with composure, successfully defusing ...
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Bob Dylan - Washington Civil Rights Concert Tops Greatest Gigs Poll
Caption: Bob Dylan performing live at Optimus Alive 2008 in Passeio Maritimo de Alges Lisbon, Portugal .... The March on Washington event in 1963, featuring BOB DYLAN, JOAN BAEZ and folk icon PETE SEEGER, has beaten THE BEATLES' ED SULLIVAN shows and Dylan's controversial Newport Folk Festival gig to top a list of America's greatest concerts in the ...
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This week in Mailbox: the 20th anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution, reception in China, the story of Czech asylum seeker Ferdinand Platil in Canada in 1968.
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Folk VIPs honored in Harvard Square
The epicenter of this nascent movement was Harvard Square, where you could find a Boston University dropout named Joan Baez making her mark at the legendary Club 47 .
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Czechs recall Communism's fall
Video: Czech free market move 'shaky' Video: Czecho-Slovak reconciliation The protest was held a week after the opening of the Berlin Wall, as pressure was building on the Communist governments of Eastern Europe.
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Up to 10,000 in Prague' s Narodni trida street
Today's march of thousands of people copying the route of the student march on November 17, 1989, that the police forcibly dispersed, triggering events that led to the fall of the Communist regime in end-1989, has reached Narodni trida street where other thousands were waiting.
It's been a busy year for award-winning singer/songwriter/activist Emmylou Harris.
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Former Czech president Vaclav Havel opened the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of his country's Velvet Revolution against Soviet domination with an eclectic concert of music on Saturday night.
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Czechs celebrate 20 years since Velvet Revolution
Former Czech President Vaclav Havel has opened the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Velvet Revolution featuring a political debate, live music and international celebrities.
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Granddaughter writes history of Nepenthe
As the October moon rose over the Big Sur coast, a belly dancer with gold Iris wings twirled with the dancing ghosts of parties past at Nepenthe restaurant.
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Folk performers at the Brewhouse
WINNING Scottish trio Lau are coming to Tauntona TMs Brewhouse theatre on Wednesday, November 25.
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Judy Collins: Sweet and sassy at Plaza Theatre
Although a songwriter, folk icon Judy Collins is best known as an interpreter of material by the most revered stars of the 1960s folk movement.
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Why Joan Baez's sound is still sweet
Her uniquely beautiful soprano voice has long heralded Joan Baez as the reigning queen of folk for fifty years.
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Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne back for Wolfe Auditorium show on Thursday
For rock 'n' roll on the sensitive side, Jackson Browne returns at 8 p.m. Thursday to Thomas Wolfe Auditorium.
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Review: Steve Martin, the serious musician
Well, sure. How else to describe one of his encores at Benaroya Hall Tuesday night: a bluegrass version of his 1978 novelty hit, "King Tut?" Or Martin's original protest song, embracing the great tradition of Pete Seeger and Joan Baez: "Let's Keep the Minimum Wage Right Where It Is." Or his attempt at a little folk outreach with the capacity ...
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Listening Post /Brief reviews of select releases
Folk Joan Baez, "How Sweet the Sound" . A companion to the PBS documentary of the same name, "How Sweet the Sound" tells Joan Baez's story in song, and ably demonstrates the singer's legacy.
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Student has special way with music
When a young lady picked up a guitar and sang at Cross Creek Country Club in August, a blindfolded person might've thought they were hearing a folk-music legend - Joni Mitchell or Joan Baez, perhaps.
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Caroline Herring releases fourth album Golden Apples of the Sun
Caroline Herring's fourth album Golden Apples of the Sun is her most intimate and mature to date.
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Doc looks at Joan Baez's private life and public career
"Did that really happen?" asks Joan Baez. "I would say that about most of my life." Photograph by: , PASADENA, Calif.
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Nancy Sinatra knows that you only live once, and she's not giving up
Nancy Sinatra has never gotten the respect she deserves. The reasons for this are complex and reveal much about the times in which she emerged.
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