Joan Baez sang like a breeze, danced like a dream and looked all diamond without rust...
She sang new songs from an upcoming album; performed a poem in English and indigenous language about the ancient Australian lands and their "borrowed time" to the accompaniment of the indigenous musical instrument Didgeridoo; she did two false-endings before finally bringing the curtain down; sang others' songs better than themselves (as usual but I am biased of course...the way she sang Dylan's "don't think twice" to a completely different beat and tune was simply breathtaking); she spoke about the homeless people all over the world, clarified that she's a pacifist and not an idiot and appealed to "raze the prisons to the ground"
Though it's difficult to pick highlights from such a concert, I'll nevertheless pick two sublime moments:
1. When she returned to the stage after a false-ending and took the guitar to sing 'Imagine'!
2. When she said she wants to travel as much as she can now because she's an athlete and the muscles around her throat are getting tired these days
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