Joan Baez 76 today

[jodymarie aimee]

Happy B-Day Joan. Diamonds and Rust.

[niyad]

1. happy birthday, joan. you are truly an international treasure.

[treestar]

2. Whoah!

Time flies. Happy Birthday!

[spanone]

3. wow.....love her...

K&R...

[CBHagman]

4. I was lucky enough to see her twice...

...once in concert back in the '80s and a second time when she sang at a Capitol Hill event honoring Ginetta Sagan (see link for bio). Baez's voice is one for the ages.

[url]http://articles.latimes.com/2000/aug/30/news/mn-12538[/url]

[eleny]

16. Me 2. First at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in August '63 where she introduced Bob Dylan

And then at the March on Washington a few weeks later in August '63.

She was so young!!!

[Turbineguy]

5. My favorite

[gademocrat7]

15. My favorite also.

Thank you for sharing.

[unblock]

6. my father claims to have taught her some basic chords.

he's a very measured man and not given to boasting about anything ever, but he's always said he met her at some summer camp, in upstate new york i think. when she was 15 and calling herself joannie and pronounced her last name "baze". my father would have been 20 then. she had a guitar and basically knew how to strum but dad taught her some basic chords.

naturally my father never thought she'd eventually become famous so didn't get any autograph or anything like that, so i have no proof.

[elleng]

10. How nice!

THANKS to your father!

[unblock]

11. ;) he'd also be the first to admit

knowing the chords is one thing. plenty of people know the chords.

knowing what to do with them is another thing entirely.

[Iggo]

7. I'll be damned.

[BigDemVoter]

8. God, this makes me feel ancient.

[skylucy]

9. 76 years old and she still sings like an angel.

[struggle4progress]

12. Forever Young

[In_The_Wind]

13. Happy Birthday, Joan Baez

[mnhtnbb]

14. She sang for us--The Nation (magazine) Cruise Dec 2012

and allowed us all in the audience to snap photos prior to starting her concert.




She was quite approachable during the cruise. Came to a couple of cocktail parties. My husband grew up in Palo Alto (he's
two years younger than she is) so he had a conversation with her about "home".