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Baez, Joan Chandos was born on January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York, United States. Daughter of Albert V. and Joan (Bridge) Baez.
(Piano arrangements and guitar chords for all the songs Jo...)
Piano arrangements and guitar chords for all the songs Joan Baez has written up to the date of publication. The song lyrics are included along with the music as well as separately in the front of the book. Drawings by Joan Baez are interspersed throughout the book.
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Baez, Joan Chandos was born on January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York, United States. Daughter of Albert V. and Joan (Bridge) Baez.
School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston University.
black colls, in southern United States of America 1963; toured Europe and United States of America 1960’s-1980’s, Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam 1972, Australia 1985; recordings with Vanguard Records 1960-1972, A & M Record Company 1972-1976, Portrait Records 1977-1980, Gold Castle Records 1987-1989, Virgin Records since 1990; awarded eight gold albums, one gold single; many TV appearances; began refusing payment of war taxes 1964; detained for' civil disobedience opposing conscription 1967; speaking tour of United States of America and Canada for draft resistance 1967-1968; Founder, Vice-President Institute for Study of Non-Violence (now called Research Center for Non-violence) since 1965 Began career as singer in coffee houses, appeared at Ballad Room, Club 47 1958-1968, Gate of Horn, Chicago 1958, Newport, R.I., Folk Festival 1959-1969, Town Hall and Carnegie Hall, New York 1962, 1967, 1968. Gave concerts in black colls, in southern United States of America 1963. Toured Europe and United States of America 1960’s-1980’s, Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam 1972, Australia 1985.
President Institute for Study of Non-Violence (now called Research Center for Non-violence) since 1965.
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Appeared in coffeehouses, Gate of Horn, Chicago, 1958, Ballad Room, Club 47, 1958-1968, Newport (Rhode Island) Folk Festival, 1959-1969, 85, 87, 90, 92, 93, 95, extended tours to colleges and concert halls, 1960s, appeared Town Hall and Carnegie Hall, 1962, 67, 68, United States tours, since 1970, concert tours in Japan, 1966, 82, Europe, 1970-1973, 80, 83-84, 87-90, 93—, Australia, 1985. Recording artist for Vanguard Records, 1960-1972, Agricultural and Mechanical, 1973-1976, Portrait Records, 1977-1980, Gold Castle Records, 1986-1989, Virgin Records, 1990-1993, Grapevine Label Records (United Kingdom), 1995-1997, Guardian Records, 1995-1997, European record albums, 1981, 83, award 8 gold albums, 1 gold single. Albums include Gone From Danger, 1997, Rare, Live & Classic (box set), 1993, Dark Chords on a Big Guitar, 2003, Bowery Songs, 2005.
Author: Joan Baez Songbook, 1964, (biography) Daybreak, 1968, (with David Harris) Coming Out, 1971, And a Voice to Sing With, 1987, (songbook) An Then I Wrote, 1979.
Extensive television appearances and speaking tours United States and Canada for anti-militarism, 1967-1968. Visit to Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1972, visit to war torn Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1993. Founder, vice president Institute for Study Nonviolence (now Resource Center for Nonviolence, Santa Cruz, California), Palo Alto, California, 1965.
Member national advisory council Amnesty International, 1974-1992. Founder, president Humanitas/International Human Rights Committee, 1979-1992. Conductor fact-finding mission to refugee camps, Southeast Asia, October 1979.
Began refusing payment of war taxes, 1964. Arrested for civil disobedience opposing draft, October, December, 1967.
Married David Victor Harris, March 1968 (divorced 1973). 1 son, Gabriel Earl.