Joan Baez

Joan Baez was born on January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York, the second of three daughters to Dr. Albert Baez, a physicist and Joan Bridge Baez. Her mother was English-Scottish, the daughter of an Episcopalian Minister and a professor of drama who had migrated to the United States.
Her father was of Mexican heritage. Her father travelled worldwide as a physicist, researcher and a UNESCO consultant. Joan later moved to Redlands of California.
She developed her love for music and picked up the ukulele and at fourteen played “Honey Love” for highschool and joined the choir also. She learned to accompany herself on guitar. They moved to Boston for a short time and she enrolled at the University. Soon after she began singing at coffee houses, colleges and later concert halls along the East Coast to larger and larger crowds.

The 1959 Newport Festival kicked off the release of her album on Vanguard Joan Baez in 1960. The rest as they say, is history. Her admirers are worldwide and her music is internationally known. She is loved beyond national boundaries and her Civil Rights cause and peace movement activities as a spokesperson for non-violence have stayed with her through out her career.
Please have the pleasure of seeing Joan Baez at her best with a duo performance with Marianne Aya Omac at Yoshis in the Bay Area this Spring!
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