Joan Baez

Google doodles South Africa's Miriam Makeba on her 81st birthday

2013-03-04 10:33:00

Some female singers puff themselves up with bogus titles like Lady Such-and-Such or the Queen of Pop. But unlike those pale pretenders to the crown, Miriam Makeba, the great South African artist who passed away in 2008 at age 76, actually earned her...

Buried history in Hanoi

2013-01-20 00:00:00

Out beyond the swank poolside bar at Hanoi's Metropole hotel, which I visited last month, a gated entrance opens onto a dark set of stairs. At the bottom is a dank and musty bomb shelter, and, for those who can read Vietnamese, a sign in golden...

Kennedy Center Honors' selection process set for a review

2013-01-08 08:30:00

After receiving criticism from the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, the Kennedy Center is revisiting its artist selection process for the Kennedy Center Honors.�� The Kennedy Center has announced that an 11-member artist advisory panel...

Michael Murphy, Esalen's potentialist

2012-12-05 00:00:00

Before the Esalen Institute, there was Michael Murphy's family's property, a choice chunk of gorgeous Big Sur, where, in 1962, Murphy (writer, seeker) and his friend and fellow human potentialist Dick Price dedicated the Murphy land to the now 50-year-old...

Dillard & Clark: Celebrating an unsung L.A. country rock classic

2012-05-18 16:37:38

Earl Scruggs dies at 88; banjo legend was half of Flatt & Scruggs

2012-03-29 00:00:00

Bill Monroe, the man widely acknowledged as the father of bluegrass music, was in search of a new banjo player for his famed Blue Grass Boys when a young musician turned up backstage at Nashville's celebrated Ryman Auditorium during a 1945 Grand Ole...

This year, this land will be Woody Guthrie's

2012-01-06 00:00:00

Amnesty International 'Chimes of Freedom' salutes Bob Dylan's music

2011-12-05 16:36:13

Arts on TV: Anna Deavere Smith; civil rights songs; Dudamel

2012-01-12 16:33:06

Lucinda Williams on discovering Bob Dylan: 'This is what I want to do'

2012-01-20 21:36:35

Monday’s Highlights: ‘House’ on Fox

2012-01-22 21:37:39

A Bob Dylan tribute album with 76 tracks and a 2012 mind-set

2012-01-24 16:36:26

Joan Baez's dad was born in Puebla, Mexico. Baez is a fok singer, songwriter and an activist.

2013-04-13 00:00:00

Follows the young Bob Dylan around the U.K. in 1965 with Donovan, Joan Baez, manager Albert Grossman and an extended entourage in tow, all shot in gorgeous, grainy black in white. Dylan's cocky rooster-stance throughout, realistically captured by D.A.

2012-10-11 07:16:00

(Ian has written a lot of songs for television shows and films too.) But for this show, you'll get to hear Ian's version of many of these songs, as part of her own collection of timeless music. And then you'll know her. 8 p.m. Friday at SPACE, 1245 Chicago Ave.

2011-09-09 11:36:50