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Joan Baez

Presented by Lowell Summer Music Series at Boarding House Park

July 30, 2009

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Two-thousand-and-eight is a landmark year for Joan Baez marking 50 years since she began her legendary residency at Boston’s famed Club 47. She remains a musical force of nature whose influence is incalculable—marching on the front line of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King, inspiring Vaclav Havel in his fight for a Czech Republic, singing on the first Amnesty International tour and just this year, standing alongside Nelson Mandela when the world celebrated his 90th birthday in London’s Hyde Park. She brought the Free Speech Movement into the spotlight, took to the fields with Cesar Chavez, organized resistance to the war in Southeast Asia, then forty years later saluted the Dixie Chicks for their courage to protest war.

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    Boarding House Park

    40 French Street
    (corner of John St.)
    Lowell, MA 01852

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    Tickets: $35 advance $40 door

    Info Phone: 978-970-5200

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    Dates:
    July 30, 2009

    Times:
    5:30pm doors
    
    7:30pm show

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    • Event Name: Joan Baez
      "Nostalgia express"
      Review posted by: Alex McKenzie from Gloucester MA, Jul 31, 2009
      

      It was a wonderful night of nostalgia for Joan's fans. There were few people in the audience who were not old enough to have seen her 50 years ago at Club 47 or the Newport Folk festival. She mixed... Expand

      It was a wonderful night of nostalgia for Joan's fans. There were few people in the audience who were not old enough to have seen her 50 years ago at Club 47 or the Newport Folk festival. She mixed early ballads like "Silver Dagger" (much more uptempo than at Club 47) to new songs from her most recent album. Personally I liked her solo performance of "House Carpenter" the best - it was most reminiscent of the time I had a terrible crush on her. Joan doesn't have the same upper register she did 50 years ago, but her voice is still beautiful, and her selection of numbers, from solo a capella, solo guitar, and numbers with a backup band was great. "Who wrote this thing, anyhow?" she quipped after muffing a transition in "Diamonds & Rust", but the rest of the performance was flawless. I don't believe her when she says "I'd rather have the Grammy", though. Collapse

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    • Event Name: Joan Baez
      "Nostalgia express"
      Review posted by: Alex McKenzie from Gloucester MA, Jul 31, 2009
      

      It was a wonderful night of nostalgia for Joan's fans. There were few people in the audience who were not old enough to have seen her 50 years ago at Club 47 or the Newport Folk festival. She mixed... Expand

      It was a wonderful night of nostalgia for Joan's fans. There were few people in the audience who were not old enough to have seen her 50 years ago at Club 47 or the Newport Folk festival. She mixed early ballads like "Silver Dagger" (much more uptempo than at Club 47) to new songs from her most recent album. Personally I liked her solo performance of "House Carpenter" the best - it was most reminiscent of the time I had a terrible crush on her. Joan doesn't have the same upper register she did 50 years ago, but her voice is still beautiful, and her selection of numbers, from solo a capella, solo guitar, and numbers with a backup band was great. "Who wrote this thing, anyhow?" she quipped after muffing a transition in "Diamonds & Rust", but the rest of the performance was flawless. I don't believe her when she says "I'd rather have the Grammy", though. Collapse

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