HAVING played the 50th Newport Folk Festival last weekend, duetting with Judy Collins and joining Pete Seeger on stage, folk legend Joan Baez has announced a full UK tour later this year including a date at Salisbury City Hall on November 11.
The Newport date marked the anniversary of her breakthrough performance at the first festival and is the latest in a series of events that have seen her illustrious career revitalised.
Just over a year ago she headlined the acoustic stage at Glastonbury and sold out a show at the Royal Albert Hall.
Last September, her 24th studio album, Day After Tomorrow, was released to uniformly good reviews. Produced by country hero Steve Earle, it featured a host of new songs as well as contributions by Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Patty Griffin and Earle himself.
Highlights on the record include the Waits-penned title track, the Grammy-nominated song Scarlet Tide, written by Elvis Costello and T-Bone Burnett, and God is God, one of three songs Steve Earle wrote specially for the project.
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