Pop Prices may not reflect ticketing service charges. For full reviews of recent concerts: nytimes.com/music. - Joan Baez (Tuesday) Occupy Wall Street denizens, look sharp: there's always a chance that this incisive folk singer-songwriter and passionate human rights activist will stop by Zuccotti Park to show her solidarity, much like her hero Pete...
Half a dozen legislators sat a few feet away, under the crystal chandeliers of the East Room of the White House, as Bob Dylan sang ''The Times They Are A-Changin','' poker-faced. ''Come senators, congressman, please heed the call,'' he rasped. ''Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall.'' His tone was rough but almost wistful; he had...

If anyone ought to recognize a great antiwar song when it comes along, it is Joan Baez, who appeared at Town Hall on Tuesday in a career retrospective celebrating her 50th year in show business. The concert, the first of two over two nights, followed the release of her album ''Day After Tomorrow'' (Bobolink/Razor and Tie), a bluegrass-flavored...
Joan Chandos Báez (født 9. januar 1941 i Staten Island, New York, USA) er en amerikansk folkemusiker, guitarist og sangskriver.
Hun fik sit gennembrud i begyndelsen af 1960'erne. Hun var en af frontfigurene i amerikansk folkemusik og i protesterne mod Vietnamkrigen.
Baez har en høj, lys stemme og akkompagnerer sig selv på akustisk guitar. Blandt hendes mest kendte indspilninger er "Farewell Angelina", "Donna Donna", "Amazing Grace" og "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down".
Hun er aktiv pacifist.
Baez havde en yngre søster, Mimi Fariña, som også var folkemusiksanger.