Premier Concerts and Kirschner Concerts are pleased to announce that Joan Baez will perform on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at The Palace Theatre in Stamford.
Touring without a full band for the first time in decades, Joan Baez will be accompanied by multi-instrumentalist, Dirk Powell. The singer's fall tour follows a string of landmark years for Baez, who was recently profiled in Public Television's American Masters documentary, Joan Baez: How Sweet The Sound. The tour will feature repertoire spanning her five decade career as well as songs from Baez's recent Grammy-nominated album, Day After Tomorrow about which the Boston Globe proclaimed, "A half century into her career, folk icon Joan Baez is making a return of sorts-not to vintage material, but to songs that evoke the spirit and message of her defining early work...Baez has never sounded wiser, or more deeply human."
Baez remains a musical force of nature whose influence is incalculable - from marching on the front line of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King to inspiring Vaclav Havel in his fight for a Czech Republic to singing on the first Amnesty International tour and 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. Her earliest recordings fed a host of traditional ballads into the rock vernacular before she unselfconsciously introduced Bob Dylan to the world in 1963 and focused awareness on songwriters ranging from Woody Guthrie, Dylan, Phil Ochs, Richard Fariña, and Tim Hardin, to Kris Kristofferson and Mickey Newbury, Dar Williams, Richard Shindell, Steve Earle and many more.
Tickets are $72, $48 or $38 plus SCA handling charges. SCA Members may purchase tickets starting Friday, June 3, 2011 at 11:00am. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, June 10, 2011 at 11am. Tickets can be purchased at the SCA website, www.scalive.org or charged by phone with major credit cards by calling the SCA Box Office at 203-325-4466. Tickets may also be purchased in person at the Palace Theatre box office in downtown Stamford, CT. The box office is open Monday-Friday from 10am to 6pm.
All performances are held at the Stamford Center for the Arts' Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic Street, Stamford, CT 06901.
For additional information (directions, parking) visit the SCA website at www.scalive.org or call 203-325-4466.
About the Stamford Center for the Arts:
The vision of the Stamford Center for the Arts is to be the regional arts center for exciting entertainment that enhances and enriches the cultural, educational, economic, and social life of the community. The SCA strives to achieve this vision by demonstrating integrity in all work and relationships, providing service and quality in all activities, fostering and promoting diversity of thought, ideas and culture, providing stewardship for the Stamford Arts community, emphasizing outreach in our community, and offering creativity in all endeavors. Major funding provided by the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.
