Show begins at 8:00 p.m.
If you don’t know Joan Baez, you don’t know Folk. For over fifty years, she’s been a central figure in American music. From her early collaborations with Bob Dylan, to her tireless activism for civil rights and peace, to her later involvement with Dylan’s legendary Rolling Thunder Review, to her thousands of live performances all over the world, Baez has lived a life of passionate engagement with the world and several generations of fans.
It all began with her voice: pure of tone, with a rich vibrato and perfect intonation. Her first recordings in 1960 were the definitive performances of the Child Ballads central to English folk music. Since then, she’s made a brief visit to the Top 40 with her cover of The Band’s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” celebrated her Hispanic heritage with albums of songs in Spanish, and introduced the English-speaking world to legendary Argentinean singer Mercedes Sosa with an album of duets.
Her voice may have shaded darker over the years, but it hasn’t lost its clarity and power. She’s the woman who sang “We Shall Overcome” to Martin Luther King Jr., and if you join her at the Englert, you’ll have a chance to sing along.
