AP - Jul 30, 2009
Joan Baez was just 18 when she performed at the first Newport Folk Festival, a self-described neurotic and high maintenance teenager who remembers trembling in her sandals as she waited her turn on stage...
More »Reuters - Sep 18, 2008
It's been 29 years since Joan Baez last appeared on the U.S. pop album chart, but her long hiatus ended this week when the folk singer's first album in five years debuted at No. 128. Day...
More »AP - May 2, 2007
Folk singer and anti-war activist Joan Baez says she doesn t know why she was not allowed to perform for recovering soldiers recently at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as she planned. In a letter to...
More »E! Online - Dec 19, 2006
The quintessential jam band. Opera s most renowned diva. An L.A. quartet whose flame still burns bright 25 years after the death of their frontman. The first lady of folk rock. The...
More »E! Online - May 24, 2006
Joan Baez is giving new meaning to the term tree-hugger. The legendary folk singer is one of several environmental activists who have committed to living in a tree—yes, living in a tree—...
More »USRN - Jul 19, 2001
(7/19/01, 7 p.m. ET) -- Folk singer and social activist Mimi Farina died at her home in Marin County, California, on Wednesday (July 18) at the age of 56, following a two-year battle with neuroendocrine...
More »USRN - Jun 25, 1999
(6/25/99, 4 p.m. PDT) - Folk legend Joan Baez is scheduled to be included among the 50 performers at San Francisco s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Celebration on Saturday (June 26) and Sunday...
More »USRN - Jun 5, 1998
(6/5/98) - Singer-songwriter David Crosby is jumping into the movie business with Stand And Be Counted, a documentary about the role of popular music in social activism and political movements. Stand...
More »USRN - Jan 22, 1998
(1/21/98) - Capitalizing on the hype surrounding this Summer s second annual Lilith Fair tour, this June the Razor & Tie record label will join forces with Rolling Stone magazine to release Rolling Stone...
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