for anyone that ever doubts how nasty white people can be, I saw some of my neighbors show their true colors. This was a small town and everybody knew everybody.

Sadly, we continue to fight these same battles 60 years later. ☮

Belmont and Cambridge were the launchpad for her career!

As she sang, the power and depth of her voice and its and her beauty had me in floods of tears, maybe partly because her music was an important part of my childhood as my brother and sister were around ten years older than me, and no doubt partly because I was absolutely off my face.

Diamonds and Rust.

Back in the day, I played the guitar and sang many of her songs. 🫶❤️

and awaken hearts." Doesn't sound very hopeful for the future. Sadly, I think she's right.

Incumbent on us to move forward…….

Peace ☮️

I hope she continues to speak out.

and lend her voice to the fight against racist redistricting, voter suppression, and White supremacy.

https://www.instagram.com/brotherjones_/reel/DX8GOrthNwU/?hl=en

Thank you.

Rec

Thank you, Brother Buzz.

Beautiful.

The top video was less than 2 months ago. Joan had a life well lived.

Folk legend Joan Baez made a surprise appearance at Jesse Welles’ sold-out show at The Fillmore in San Francisco on November 4, 2025, performing a duet of his protest song "No Kings" and the Dylan classic "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right". This collaboration served as a symbolic "passing of the torch".

Jesse made the sojourn from Arkansas to Joan Baez’ backyard with his patented smile and a bounce in his step and let the magic happen.

Thank you Joan Baez! One of the greatest folk singers ever - with the voice of an angel!!!

for all of you gifts in your activism and beautiful voice. You are cherished in our hearts.

I'll even sing along to "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." But it's ok. It was written by a Canadian.

up against injustices for so many years.

Damn glad I did. She has been an amazing force for almost my entire life.

I love you Joan!

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seen her perform countless times. I did get to meet her sisters and brother in law and her delightful parents. What a terrific loving family. No wonder she has always been on the correct side of civil rights, and justice, and not afraid to sing about it!

even though you missed out on meeting Joan.

She sang at the candlelight vigil from The Castro for Milk and Moscone back in 1978 in San Francisco. We were all so young.

Thank you for staying true all these years.

for so long.

I so wish I had seen her.

A few days ago, I was chatting with some 30-somethings and I mentioned Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant. They never heard it or of it. I really wonder how many of the folk songs of the 60s and 70s are being listened by the younger generations.

I was also at a nightclub (of sorts) and the band was playing American standards like Route 66, Spanish Eyes, etc. Then they played CCR’s Have You Ever Seen The Rain. CCR among the standards??

in 2010 at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, CA. Kristofferson (one of my all-time faves) opened for Haggard (one of my all-time faves), and Kris came back out to sing/play with Haggard at the end... and then (in a huge surprise), John (one of my all-rime faves) and Joan (one of my all-time faves) joined them! Not sure there was anyone alive at that moment I wanted to see more than the four of them....or anywhere I would rather have been! (And I had seen them all separately several times.) Transplendent!

I saw Joan at a benefit tribute (to her) concert at the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco (with other amazing legends) last year, and then at a No Kings rally in SF last fall. She has always been (and continues to be) an inspiration!

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13971571/joan-baez-review-masonic-san-francisco-sweet-relief

That must have been amazing to see. She is an inspiration to us all.

greatest pipes ever. And Kristofferson was a fabulous composer who was often overlooked.

For everything. Thank you.

But I’m still singing and protesting and carrying on. It’s not over,
And so say my kids and grandkids.

To keep going up to 85 is amazing. Hope I can do that.

You’ve been such an inspiration over the years!

And you’re only retiring. That means you’re still here! I take great comfort in that.

that did it. The hard work - and she did work hard - and now watching those successes being dismantled. Her heart is broken. I am sad about this.
So many gave so much back when it was cool to be better people instead of the garbage dwellers we are surrounded by now.

….I want to wrap in bubble wrap and put her on a high shelf so I can keep her safe forever. Of course no one lives that long.

Here she is singing “Nasty Man”. You can guess who it’s about. She’s a jewel of a human being.

it started to rain while the Paul Butterfield band was playing and they were plugged in so they had to stop..

Joan came out and did a couple of songs, no power.. acoustic guitar and her voice. She's a small woman and she was dancing around the stage soaking wet. We had seats when she played. We watched Dylan from the parking lot.

I just listened to 4 songs... Be well, shining light.

in Madison Square Garden,NY; leading the audience in "Jacob's Ladder"

Before that, I saw her in 2009 at the 50th anniversary of the Newport Folk Festival.

She did "Diamonds And Rust" as a duet with Judy Collins.

Her performance had me feel like my feet were firmly screwed to the ground and my skin prickled with goose bumps.

when we joined a cruise in 2012 sponsored by The Nation magazine. She performed at a private concert for the group one night, and allowed us to take photos before she started singing.



Another evening, a reception was held in her honor and we got to chat with her a bit. Both she and my husband grew up in Palo Alto.
Amazing woman with a unique voice.

Yes.

Too bad we decided to squander that era.

That is the part that really sucks as far as I am concerned.

You beat me to the posting of it

Thanks!

... and her sister, Mimi, was married to Richard Fariña, a songwriter and author who died tragically in a motorcycle accident on the night of a party celebrating the publication of his book, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me. Mimi played autoharp to Richard's guitar, and one of their better known songs was Pack Up Your Sorrows.

and well done

And thank you, DUers who posted so many gorgeous songs.
Thank you.

Went with my mom in the late 80s. Love her.

Loved her version of Mary Chapin Carpenter’s Stones in the Road. She was one of the first woke artists who inspired me as a kid in the late 60s.