Legendary artist Joan Baez will embark on an extensive UK tour beginning in February. Baez will be accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Dirk Powell and will feature a repertoire spanning her five-decade career.
In quick succession, Baez celebrated joyful landmark years in 2008-2009, marking the 50th anniversary of both her renowned residency in 1958 at the famed Club 47 in Cambridge and her subsequent debut at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. These milestones coincided with the Grammy-nominated album, Day After Tomorrow (September 2008), which was recorded in Nashville and produced by Steve Earle. Of the release, 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.” Moreover, in 2009, Baez was profiled in Public Television’s American Masters documentary, Joan Baez: How Sweet The Sound.
2011 began with the National Recording Academy (US) inducting Baez’s 1960 debut LP on Vanguard Records into the Grammy Hall Of Fame. At the same time, Amnesty International, at its 50th Anniversary Annual General Meeting in San Francisco, bestowed on her the inaugural “Joan Baez Award for Outstanding Inspirational Service in the Global Fight for Human Rights.” Additionally, Baez recently returned to the cast of Teatro ZinZanni in San Francisco for a limited run in “Maestro’s Enchantment.”
Tickets for Joan Baez priced at £39.50, £36.00 and £33.00 (subject to booking fees) at City Hall - Sheffield are available online at www.sheffieldcityhall.co.uk, in person at the City Hall Box Office or on 0114 2 789 789.
