Joan Baez live in concert.
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Joan Baez

59
critic concert reviews
rock

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

83
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Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

Critic Consensus

Joan Baez is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 10% of all live performers. Based on 59 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Joan Baez is rated as a superb live performer, with remarkable shows that are worth watching. Joan Baez concert reviews describe live shows and performances as stirring, astonishing, spellbinding, poignant, amazing, lovely, and stunning.

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Latest Release

LA PRINCESA DE ASIA - Single (17 September 2024)

Artist Info

Genre
rock
Origin
Staten Island, United States (1/9/1941)
Bio
Joan Baez, born on January 9th, 1941, is an American folk singer and a songwriter who is of mixed Mexican and Scottish descent. Baez rose to prominence in the early '60s with her stunning renditions of traditional balladry.
Has Performed With

Critic Concert Reviews

Consequence (USA)

February 27, 2024
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Maggie Rogers, Joan Baez, Maya Hawke Perform at Tibet House Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall

Riff Magazine (USA)

May 14, 2023
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Joan Baez and Taj Mahal star at Acoustic-4-a-Cure Fillmore show

The Arts Desk (UK)

March 2, 2019
100
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The rich pinot noir of a contralto with which she has made peace over the last five years or so is a wondrous instrument, bringing a depth of emotion that was sometimes lacking in the early years

The Scotsman (Scotland)

February 27, 2019
80
%
The great folk doyenne Joan Baez embarked on her farewell tour last year, but it turned out the fans didn’t want to say goodbye just yet so she’s back for another parting shot.

Variety (USA)

November 13, 2018
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At Royce Hall, she didn't sound like someone who should be singing It's All Over Now, Baby Blue in anything but the figurative sense.

San Diego Union Tribune (USA)

November 1, 2018
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As the reigning queen of folk music for the past five decades, Joan Baez needn’t bow to anyone.

The Guardian (UK)

May 29, 2018
80
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The audience was greying, supportive and eager to join in with It’s All Over Now Baby Blue, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and The Boxer, the song with which she concluded her 100-minute set.

Past critic reviews published in

Chicago Concert Reviews (USA), The Orange County Register (USA), Mercury News (USA), Glide Magazine (USA), Dallas Observer (USA) and more

Image Credit

JTG Photo [CC BY-SA 4.0] via Wikimedia Commons