Joan Baez News

Her uniquely beautiful soprano voice has long heralded Joan Baez as the reigning queen of folk for fifty years.

For rock 'n' roll on the sensitive side, Jackson Browne returns at 8 p.m. Thursday to Thomas Wolfe Auditorium.

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 ...

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.

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.

Caroline Herring's fourth album Golden Apples of the Sun is her most intimate and mature to date.

"Did that really happen?" asks Joan Baez. "I would say that about most of my life." Photograph by: , PASADENA, Calif.

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.

Monterey County may soon join an historical preservation program that could dole out property tax breaks for most of Spreckels and the home folk singer Joan Baez built in Carmel Valley.

Rob Reinhart has the kind of voice - rich and resonant - that's made for radio, which is where you'll find the producer/host of the weekly, made-in-Ann Arbor, nationally syndicated radio program "Acoustic CafA©." Reinhart's guests over the 15 years since the show launched have included top talent as well as up-and-comers from a variety of ...

Those of us in our sixties - veterans of the sixties - had to be moved by the PBS American Masters biography of Joan Baez: "How Sweet the Sound." The documentary recalled great and bitter moments, and highlighted Baez's brief relationship with Bob Dylan, the greatest musical lyricist of the twentieth century.

IT MAY be five decades since Joan Baez first began performing in folk clubs, but she still knows how to captivate an audience.

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.

A half-century ago, a teenaged college drop-out hesitantly sang at the first Newport Folk Festival.

For a long time, Fifth and Main was Chris Kinne's corner. The stocking-capped guitarist plays rock classics on his acoustic guitar for downtown diners at lunch, typically perched near the entrance of Impressions or Billy's, somewhere near all that's left of Bartlett Square - a fountain and a traffic circle.

The 26th season of " Frontline " can't come too soon. Its initial report - a bracing look at Afghanistan at a time when the administration is considering whether to send more troops there - is an essential review.

Brought a bunch of new stuff to the studio this week for a show that magically expanded back to three hours to accommodate it all.

Phillipsburg native David Hadju, author of 'Heroes and Villians: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics and Culture'. October 7, 2009 Phillipsburg , N.J., native David Hajdu explored the lives of folk artists such as Joan Baez and Bob Dylan in ''Positively 4th Street.'' He detailed attempts to censor comic books in ''The Ten-Cent Plague.'' Now, Hajdu ...

Mercedes Sosa, an Argentine singer who emerged as an electrifying voice of conscience throughout Latin America for songs that championed social justice in the face of government repression, died Sunday at a medical clinic in Buenos Aires.

Legendary Argentine folk singer and activist Mercedes Sosa, who used her powerful voice to sing for the voiceless, died yesterday at the age of 74, a local hospital announced.