Since she stepped onstage unannounced at the 1959 Newport Folk
Festival, Joan Baez has occupied a singular place in popular music.
Within three years, she had recorded three best-selling albums and
had embarked on a tour of southern US campuses, playing to
integrated audiences in an era of segregation. When Time magazine
chronicled the folk revival in November 1962, her portrait was on
the cover. Her voice was “as lustrous and rich as old gold.â€
She has mentored generations of singer-songwriters, most famously
Bob Dylan. Â But Joan Baez has always been much more than
simply a singer. Even before she stood on the podium beside Dr
Martin Luther King at the March on Washington, her voice was raised
in sorrow and anger as well as in song. The causes for which she
has campaigned are legion and it’s no surprise that she was
chosen to open Live Aid in Philadelphia in 1985. In 1993, amid the
siege of Bosnia, she donned a flak jacket to sing for the citizens
of Sarajevo offering, as so many times before and since, “an act
of love, sharing, witness and musicâ€.  Now approaching 80,
Baez has stepped down from the stage following a worldwide farewell
tour and a final Grammy-nominated album. The Last Leaf is a
celebration of a timeless figure whose music and influence will
endure long after her voice is silenced. The Discography is
by Grammy-nominated music historian Arthur Levy. Joan Baez is the
recipient of the 2020 Woody Guthrie Prize.
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