Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice.] Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing more than 30 albums. Baez is generally regarded as a folk singer, but her music has diversified since the counterculture era of the 1960s and encompasses genres such as folk rock, pop, country, and gospel music. She began her recording career in 1960 and achieved immediate success. Her first three albums, Joan Baez, Joan Baez, Vol. 2 and Joan Baez in Concert, all achieved gold record status. Although a songwriter herself, Baez generally interprets others' work, having recorded many traditional songs and songs written by the Allman Brothers Band, the Beatles, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, Woody Guthrie, Violeta Parra, the Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, and many others. She was one of the first major artists to record songs by Bob Dylan in the early 1960s; Baez was already an internationally celebrated artist and did much to popularize his early songwriting efforts. Her tumultuous relationship with Dylan later became the subject of songs by each of them and generated much public speculation. On her later albums she has found success interpreting the work of more recent songwriters, including Ryan Adams, Josh Ritter, Steve Earle, Natalie Merchant, and Joe Henry. Baez's songs include "Diamonds & Rust" and covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and the Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". She also recorded "Farewell, Angelina", "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word", "Forever Young", "Here's to You", "Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "We Shall Overcome". Baez performed fourteen songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, human rights, and the environment. Baez was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, 2017. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Baez, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2024Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
• 2019Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese — The Balladeer
• Later... with Jools Holland
• 1988To Kill a Priest — Songs
• 1987The Return of Bruno — Joan Baez
• 1986An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
• Fame — Joan Baez
• 1978Renaldo and Clara — The Woman in White
• Rockpalast
• 1972Silent Running — Theme Song Performance
• 1971Sacco & Vanzetti — Songs
• Playboy After Dark
• 1968Everything or Nothing — Music
• Joan Baez released from jail in Oakland

Appearances as themselves (92)

• Everybody's Live with John Mulaney — Self - Musician and Activist
• 2025Janis Ian: Breaking Silence — Self
• 2025Newport and the Great Folk Dream — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame: Inaugural Induction Ceremony — Self - interviewee / performer
• 2024Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Joan Baez: I Am a Noise — Self
• 20222022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self (voice)
• 2022Ennio — Self
• 2021A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings — Self
• 2021Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Joan Baez: The Fare Thee Well Tour 2018/2019 — Self
• 2019Rollin' Rain and Hard Thunder: A Compilation Film — Self
• 2019Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation — Self
• 2019Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970 — Self
• 2018King in the Wilderness — Self
• 2018Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017 — Self
• 2016Joan Baez: 75th Birthday Celebration — Self
• 2016Too Hip for the Room: The Righteous Reign of Lord Buckley — Self
• 2015... Sings Dylan II — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live — Self - Special Guest
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• 2014Sharon Isbin: Troubadour — Self - interviewee
• 2014The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited — Self
• 2013Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis' — Self
• 2013Martin Luther King and the March on Washington — Self
• 2011Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune — Self
• 2009Bulles de Vian — Self
• 2009Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel — Self
• 2009Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound — Self
• 2009Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 — Self
• 2009Woodstock: Untold Stories — Self
• Q&A — Self - Panelist
• 200765 Revisited — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Pete Seeger: The Power of Song — Self
• 2007Slacker Uprising — Self
• 2007The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival — Self
• Folk Britannia — Self (archival footage)
• 2005No Direction Home: Bob Dylan — Self
• 2004Live Aid — Self
• 2004Rolling Thunder Revue - 1975-1976 Video Anthology — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour — Self
• Where Are They Now? — Self
• Leute heute — Self
• 1996Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival — Self
• 1994The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg — Self
• 1993Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work — Self
• Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Musical Guest
• 1990Berkeley in the Sixties — Self (archive footage)
• 1989We Shall Overcome — Self
• Bains de Minuit — Self
• Le monde est à vous — Self
• Sacrée soirée — Self
• 1986In Remembrance of Martin — Self
• 1985Live Aid — Self
• 1984Merton: A Film Biography — Self
• 1984Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin' — Self
• Champs-Elysées — Self
• Heut' abend — Self
• Okay — Self
• Please Turn the Page — Self
• 1976Bob Dylan: Hard Rain — Self
• 1976Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976 — Self
• 1976The Memory of Justice — Self
• The Muppet Show — Self - Special Guest Star
• Numéro un — Self
• 1974Sing Sing Thanksgiving — Self
• 1973The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973 — Self
• Le Grand Échiquier — Self - Main Guest
• 1972Scruggs: A Festival of Music — Self
• 1972Sing Sing Thanksgiving — Self
• 1972The Making of Silent Running — Self
• The Midnight Special — Self
• 1971Celebration at Big Sur — Self
• 1971Dynamite Chicken — Self
• 1971Joan Baez - Blessed Are — Self
• 1971Wondering About Things — Self
• 1970Carry It On — Self
• 1970King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis — Self (archive footage)
• 1970Woodstock — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• 1967Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back — Self
• 1967Festival — Self
• Titel, Thesen, Temperamente — Self
• Joan Baez In Concert — Self (archive footage)
• 1965The Big T.N.T. Show — Self
• 1964The March — Self
• Tonight in Person — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• Discorama — Self