Joan Baez

Overview

A key musician and a political activist, Joan Baez will be performing in Auckland for the first time in 20 years this August.

The Queen of Folk and her music were one of the cornerstones of the Civil Rights movement during the sixties, even marching on the front lines of the movement with Dr Martin Luther King as well as raising activism around the Vietnam War.

Joan Baez is the personification of the folk movement, she played at the '69 Woodstock Festival, helped Bob Dylan become famous (messy romantic involvement included - her 1975 song "Diamonds and Rust" was inspired by their relationship).

She hasn't lost any steam in her later years either, her latest album Day after Tomorrow was nominated for a Grammy, and her Auckland show is guaranteed to be of the same high calibre.