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Joan Baez

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Watch a trailer for the Showtime documentary that goes behind the scenes on a concert featuring the music from the Coen Bros.' film Inside Llewyn Davis.
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Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
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Joan Baez was the middle daughter of Albert Vinicio and Joan Bridge Baez. At age 10, her father took a job (and the family) to Baghdad, Iraq, for a year, after which they moved to Palo Alto, CA, home of Stanford University. In 1956, she bought her first guitar and heard Martin Luther King, Jr.'s lecture on nonviolence; the following year, she heard Ira Sandperl, a Gandhian scholar, who also influenced her strongly. She graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1958, failed with a demo album, and move the next year to Massachusetts where her father had taken a teaching position at MIT. She performed at Club 47, a folk music club in Cambridge, and participated in an album "Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square". The same year, she met Odetta and Bob Gibson while she was performing at Chicago's The Gate Of Horn. Bob invited her to perform July 11 at the Newport Folk Festival, which launched her fame as a folksinger. Her first album for Vanguard, "Joan Baez" (1960), was a huge success. The following year, she met Bob Dylan and released her second very successful album, followed the year later by many southern civil-rights performances and "Joan Baez in Concert" (a Grammy nominee). She launched a tax revolt as part of her protest of the Vietnam war, protested Pete Seeger's exclusion by ABC-TV, and joined in the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley and the civil rights march in Selma AL. In 1967, she spent two brief periods in jail for anti-war protests. In 1969, she gave birth to Gabriel Earl while his father, David Harris, was serving 20 months of a three year sentence for draft resistance. In 1971, her songs were featured in the films Sacco & Vanzetti (1971) (aka Sacco And Vanzetti) and "Celebration At Big Sur". A 1974 world tour included Japan, Australia, Israel, Lebanon, Tunisia and Argentina. The 1978 film Renaldo and Clara (1978) featured her performances in Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder tours. In 1980, Antioch University and Rutgers University awarded her the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters for her music and her activism. Next year, PBS aired the documentary "There But For Fortune: Joan Baez in Latin America". The albums, causes and concerts continue, far too numerous to list here.
BornJanuary 9, 1941
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Joan Baez in The Big T.N.T. Show (1966)
Joan Baez and Phil Spector in The Big T.N.T. Show (1966)
Joan Baez in The Big T.N.T. Show (1966)
Joan Baez in The Big T.N.T. Show (1966)
Joan Baez in The Big T.N.T. Show (1966)
Joan Baez in The Big T.N.T. Show (1966)
Joan Baez in Festival (1967)
Joan Baez in Festival (1967)
Joan Baez in Festival (1967)
Joan Baez in Festival (1967)
Joan Baez in Festival (1967)
Joan Baez in Festival (1967)

Known for

Jeff Goldblum, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Cate Blanchett, Bud Cort, Anjelica Huston, Michael Gambon, and Owen Wilson in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
7.2
  • Soundtrack("Here's to You")
  • 2004
Silent Running (1972)
Silent Running
6.6
  • Music Department
  • 1972
Woody Harrelson, Frances McDormand, and Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
8.1
  • Soundtrack("Night They Drove Old Dixie Down")
  • 2017
Taking Woodstock (2009)
Taking Woodstock
6.7
  • Soundtrack("Sweet Sir Galahad")
  • 2009

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Music Department

  • Martin Luther King, Joachim Prinz, and A. Philip Randolph in We Have A Dream (2016)
    We Have A Dream
  • Clichés de Stars (2015)
    Clichés de Stars
  • Ed Harris and Christopher Lambert in To Kill A Priest (1988)
    To Kill A Priest
  • Silent Running (1972)
    Silent Running
  • Gian Maria Volontè and Riccardo Cucciolla in Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
    Sacco & Vanzetti
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Actress

  • Bob Dylan in Rolling Thunder Revue (2019)
    Rolling Thunder Revue
  • The Return of Bruno (1987)
    The Return of Bruno
  • CBS Television Workshop (1952)
    CBS Television Workshop

Composer

  • The March in Washington
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Videos11

Trailer #1
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Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
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Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
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Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis
Trailer 1:58
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis
Woodstock
Trailer 1:44
Woodstock
Woodstock: Three Days of Peace And Music
Trailer 1:38
Woodstock: Three Days of Peace And Music
Woodstock: Three Days of Peace And Music
Trailer 1:25
Woodstock: Three Days of Peace And Music
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Trailer 1:46
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Don't Look Back
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Don't Look Back
Berkeley in the Sixties
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Berkeley in the Sixties
Welcome to Eden
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Welcome to Eden

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    • January 9, 1941
    • Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
    • David HarrisMarch 26, 1968 - February 15, 1974 (divorced, 1 child)
  • Other works
    CD: "Blowin' Away" (Columbia).
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    • 3 Print Biographies
    • 1 Portrayal
    • 2 Interviews
    • 9 Articles
    • 2 Pictorials
    • 3 Magazine Cover Photos

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    Strong supporter of the Civil Rights and the anti-war movement in the 1960s and 1970s. During Christmas of 1972, she joined a peace delegation traveling to North Vietnam.
  • Quotes
    You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

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