Joan Baez – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonIt was all very cosy. At the back of the stage was a pink sofa, a lamp and side-table with a vase of daffodils, and in front of them was the world's best-known female folk singer, playing guitar and easing into a two-hour set that veered between nostalgia and reminders of her lifelong musical and political bravery. Joan Baez is now 71 and still in remarkably fine form. Slim and elegant, with cropped silver hair, a black trouser suit and long, yellow scarf, she had pack...

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