An Evening with Joan Baez

Touring without a full band for the first time in decades, Joan Baez will be accompanied by multi-instrumentalist, Dirk Powell. The singer’s fall tour follows a string of landmark years for Baez, who was recently profiled in Public Television’s American Masters documentary, Joan Baez: How Sweet The Sound. The tour will feature repertoire spanning her five decade career as well as songs from Baez’s recent Grammy-nominated album, Day After Tomorrow about which the Boston Globe proclaimed, “A half century into her career, folk icon Joan Baez is making a return of sorts–not to vintage material, but to songs that evoke the spirit and message of her defining early work…Baez has never sounded wiser, or more deeply human.”

Baez remains a musical force of nature whose influence is incalculable – from marching on the front line of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King to inspiring Vaclav Havel in his fight for a Czech Republic to singing on the first Amnesty Interna­tional tour and standing alongside Nelson Mandela when the world celebrated his 90th birthday in London’s Hyde Park. She brought the Free Speech Movement into the spotlight, took to the fields with Cesar Chavez, organized resistance to the war in Southeast Asia, then forty years later saluted the Dixie Chicks for their courage to protest war. Her earliest recordings fed a host of traditional ballads into the rock vernacular before she unselfconsciously introduced Bob Dylan to the world in 1963 and focused aware­ness on songwriters ranging from Woody Guthrie, Dylan, Phil Ochs, Richard Fariña, and Tim Hardin, to Kris Kristofferson and Mickey Newbury, Dar Williams, Richard Shindell, Steve Earle and many more.

Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, June 10th at 11:00am.