Joan Baez Confirms Fall Tour Dates

Joan Baez will travel to Europe for a series of festivals in July and returns to major U.S. markets in October and November with shows in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and more. See below for complete list of dates.

In January, Baez celebrated her 75th birthday at New York's Beacon Theatre. The special event honored her legendary 50-plus years in music in an intimate, career-spanning live performance. Baez performed alongside fellow artists and friends, including David Bromberg, Jackson Browne, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Judy Collins, David Crosby, Indigo Girls, Emmylou Harris, Damien Rice, Paul Simon, Mavis Staples, Nano Stern and Richard Thompson. Rolling Stone called her performance "true to spirit, a folk concert through and through, full of spontaneous sing-alongs and impromptu lyrical ad-libs." The concert was recorded and produced for television by Thirteen Productions LLC for WNET New York as part of the Great Performances series on PBS. Following it's May debut on Thirteen, it will air on stations around the country in June.

In other news, Baez was presented with Amnesty International's "Ambassador of Conscience Award" at a ceremony in Berlin on May 21, 2015. The award is the organization's top honor and recognizes those who have shown exceptional leadership in the fight for human rights through their life and work.

Baez was further honored last year when Joan Baez, her break-through 1960 debut album, was selected by the Library of Congress as one of its 25 annual recordings to be preserved in the National Recording Registry. The Library of Congress stated that the album "preserves for posterity powerful performances from the Harvard Square coffeehouse repertoire that brought Baez to prominence as the folk-revival movement was arriving on the national stage."

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