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Joan Baez

October 2023

  • Joan Baez at the Alabama State Capitol in 1965, from JOAN BAEZ I AM A NOISE, a Magnolia Pictures release. © Stephen Sonnerstein. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.

    Joan Baez: I Am a Noise review – intimate doc about the folk legend and activist

  • Joan Baez in 2019

    The reader interview
    Joan Baez: ‘I talk to trees to get answers. They give it to you cold turkey’

September 2023

  • Joan Baez at the 2023 Nantucket film festival in June.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Joan Baez

    The activist and hugely popular folk singer is the subject of a new documentary, Joan Baez: I Am a Noise, and will answer your questions later this week

August 2023

  • Martin Luther King Jr waves to supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, on 28 August 1963.

    March on Washington: the day MLK – and Dylan and Baez – made hope and history rhyme

  • Portrait Of Brice Marden<br>Portrait of American artist Brice Marden in front of one of his paintings, New York, New York, 1990s. (Photo by Anthony Barboza/Getty Images)

    Brice Marden obituary

April 2020

  • Outlaw taste and versatile abilities .. Joan Baez.

    Listener's digest
    Joan Baez: where to start in her back catalogue

    In the Listener’s digest series, our writers help you explore the work of great musicians. Today: the first lady of folk-rock

August 2019

  • Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock.

    'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs

    It was a blueprint for Live Aid and every mega-festival since. We survey a new archive box set – in full – to uncover the real story of these ‘three days of peace and music’

June 2019

  • Magnificent duets … Joan Baez and Bob Dylan play in the Rolling Thunder Revue.

    All aboard the Bob Dylan express! How Rolling Thunder revved round America

  • Another act of self-reshaping … Bob Dylan in Rolling Thunder Revue.

    Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese review – passion on tour

February 2019

  • Joan Baez at her home in Woodside, California, February 2018.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Joan Baez: ‘Music can move people to do things’

    The veteran singer on her mixed emotions about her farewell tour, the women she most admires, and forever being linked to Dylan

October 2018

  • Taylor Swift

    From Joan Baez to Taylor Swift: how musicians found a political voice

    Taylor Swift’s intervention in the US midterm elections is all the more powerful because she is not typical of earlier activists

May 2018

  • Joan Baez

    Joan Baez review – queen of folk bids a poignant farewell

    Eco-protests met lover’s laments as the 77-year-old marked her final tour with a stirring reminder of her fighting spirit

March 2018

  • TremblingBells Photobooth

    Folk album of the month – Trembling Bells: Dungeness

  • US singer Jessie Joan Baez performs late on June 16, 2012 during the 18th Sacred World Music Festival in Fes. AFP PHOTO / ABDELHAK SENNA (Photo credit should read ABDELHAK SENNA/AFP/GettyImages)

    Joan Baez: Whistle Down the Wind review – a graceful farewell

October 2016

  • Robert Plant and Emmylou Harris in Boston

    Robert Plant Lampedusa tour review – tenderly rocking for refugees

    The former Led Zeppelin frontman warned that there would be no ‘Hobbit songs’ – instead he rolled out an empathetic set of Americana with guests including Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle and Joan Baez

July 2016

  • Tarabband, with Nadin Al Khalidi second right.

    Tarabband – telling war stories through Arab music

    Iraq-born musician Nadin Al Khalidi fled her homeland to escape beheadings and the ravages of war – she’s since found a new purpose recounting such tales through song

March 2016

  • Mimi and Richard Farina

    Richard Fariña: lost genius who bridged the gap between beats and hippies

    He was Thomas Pynchon’s roommate, he hung out with Bob Dylan and wrote an American cult classic, yet Fariña is a name few know outside of literary circles

February 2016

  • BOB DYLAN Rolling Thunder photographs by Ken Regan

    Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Revue – in pictures

    When Bob Dylan took his travelling caravan of musicians – among them Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn and Mick Ronson – out on the road in autumn 1975, the photographer Ken Regan was on hand to document it all. Now his revealing shots are published in Rolling Thunder: Photographs by Ken Regan
  • Willie Nelson opening the July 4th Picnic music festival in 1974.

    Not talkin' bout a revolution: where are all the protest songs?

    From anti-Vietnam war ballads to miner’s strike songs, folk artists have long voiced counter­cultural anger. With so much ammunition today, could folk music be about to wake from its recent docility
  • Copyright Sarah Lee - The Cambridge Folk Festival 2015. More detailed captions to follow but I’m filing these at 4.30am after two of the longest days ever and am abotu to pass out. JOAN BAEZ

    Joan Baez: 'The places I feel most at home are the ones in struggle'

    The activist and pioneering folk singer is currently celebrating her 75th birthday in the only way she knows how – by performing around America
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