Listening to part of the Arena show on RTE last night I caught the item on Joan Baez and the book, The Last Leaf by Elizabeth Thomson which is available on Amazon. It got me searching for an old album recorded in 1960 on the Vanguard label and this girl could sing. From the sleeve notes on the back, "A soprano voice with no break from the lowest to the highest registers", Joan Baez was some fine singer and one of the great social activists of the past century. The video above was loaded by PS109VanBurenHigh and a visit to Youtube to read the notes accompanying it is a must. When Martin Luther King gave his famous, "I Have a Dream" speech on the 28th of August 1963 she opened the proceedings with this. Recorded in 1958 when she was just 17 years old it was released in 1964. From the album it says she's of Mexican-Irish parentage but everywhere else it's Mexican-Scottish. Someone correct me. She was also part of the Northern Irish peace process. As I said of John Lennon - where are they now. Look around you. To finish - all life matters.
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