Joan Baez on Music, Art, and Lifelong Activism

Join legendary singer/songwriter Joan Baez at Chicago's historic Old Town School of Folk Music for an intimate chat on music, art, activism, and the kind of insider musician stories you can only get from the '60s folk revival scene icon. Interviewed live on stage by Justin Richmond of the music podcast Broken Record.

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CW: Profanity

PHOTO: Joan Baez author photo

PHOTO: A page of upside down drawings from Joan Baez's book Am I Pretty When I Fly?

Joan Baez, Am I Pretty When I Fly?: An Album of Upside Down Drawings

Joan Baez I Am a Noise trailer

Joan Baez, "Diamonds and Rust", "A Song for David", "Sweet Sir Galahad"

Tina Turner, "Steel Claw" live

Bill Lee

Harry Belafonte, "Day O (Banana Boat Song)"

The Kingston Trio

"Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round"

Albert Grossman

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Bayard Rustin

Ira Sandperl

Justin Jones, The People's Plaza

Joan Baez's "What can I do?" recommended organizations Facebook post

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