![]() It brought acclaim and invitations to perform in folk clubs and concert halls throughout the college circuit and major cities. Her two years of apprenticeship in the Boston area brought her to the attention of Bob Gibson, who invited her to participate in the 1959 Newport Folk Festival.īaez began a long association with Vanguard Records, then America ’s foremost folk label, in 1960 with her album Joan Baez. Relocated to the Boston area, where her father had joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she attended Boston University and began to perform professionally at small clubs, such as Tulla ’s Coffee Grinder. Baez ’s autobiography, And a Voice to Sing With, details her childhood as a faculty child in Ithaca, New York, and in Bagdad, Redlands, and Palo Alto, California, where she attended high school and began to play the guitar. She was born in Staten Island, New York, January 9, 1941, the daughter of Dr. For Joan Baez, through many years of performance, writing, and speaking out, the voice is a symbol of an individual ’s power to effect change. ![]() ![]() ![]() The voice can be a powerful instrument in music and social activism. ![]()
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