After six decades performing, folk legend Joan Baez is saying farewell to music with a tour this summer. But before setting off, she sat down with Jeffrey Brown to talk about her long career in music ...

Club Passim has been a hub for folk musicians in the center of Harvard Square since the 1950s — providing a community for artists like the Kweskin Jug Band, The Staple Singers, Joan Baez, Chris ...

The opening moments of a new documentary film show an artist with one of the most extraordinary voices of all time working with a vocal coach to get through a farewell tour. BAEZ: I have to just - to ...

Joan Baez performs for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, who hold a Veterans Day concert in Foley Square in New York City in 2011. A new documentary about the folk singer called "I Am a Noise" is ...

In “Joan Baez: I Am a Noise,” which is premiering on Feb. 17 at the Berlin Film Festival, the folk icon with a supple soprano voice and a long history of activism, takes a disarmingly candid look on ...

In 1959, folksinger Bob Gibson introduced a young Joan Baez to the Newport Folk Festival audience. She was quickly dubbed the "barefoot Madonna" after the two sang "Virgin Mary Had One Son" and "We ...

Acclaimed activist, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and Bob Dylan fraternizer Joan Baez is set to begin her last formal extended tour later this year. The "Fare Thee Well" tour will be making a stop at the ...

In this April 6, 2013 photo, Joan Baez laughs while speaking to former staff at the Metropole Hanoi in Hanoi, Vietnam. The folk singer and social activist visited Vietnam recently for the first time ...

In 1993, Black duetted with Joan Baez on a haunting cover of Bob Dylan 's famed hit Ring Them Bells. She has also covered several other Dylan songs, including To Make You Feel My Love, Forever Young, ...