{"id":488528,"date":"2019-07-29T11:37:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T17:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=864747"},"modified":"2019-07-29T11:37:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T17:37:32","slug":"watch-joan-baez-close-out-farewell-tour-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-joan-baez-close-out-farewell-tour-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Joan Baez Close Out Farewell Tour in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sixty years to the month after making her debut at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez<\/a> wrapped up her career as a live performer Sunday evening with a show at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain.<\/p>\n

The emotional concert featured a cross-section of songs she\u2019s been playing for decades, including \u201cDiamonds and Rust,\u201d \u201cThe House of the Rising Sun,\u201d \u201cJoe Hill\u201d and \u201cThe Boxer.\u201d Here\u2019s a fifteen minute video with snippets of songs from throughout the night, including the finale of \u201cDink\u2019s Song (Fare Thee Well)\u201d and a last wave goodbye to the audience before walking offstage forever.<\/p>\n

Baez began her Fare Thee Well<\/em> tour in March 2018 and spent the last year taking it all over the globe. \u201cIt\u2019s going well,\u201d she told Rolling Stone<\/em> in April.<\/a> \u201cPeople should quit more often. There\u2019s a different kind of excitement at the show and that\u2019s been fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

One reason Baez decided to stop touring was the condition of her singing voice. \u201cThis vocal box has been extraordinary,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s holding out OK and I don\u2019t want to try and use it forever. I know some people strain to sing until they\u2019re 100 and then drop dead on the stage, but that\u2019s never been my vision of how I\u2019d end the career. I like this voice. It\u2019s nothing to do with the one I had 50 years ago, nothing at all, but I\u2019m enjoying it and it\u2019s also, at the same time, quite difficult to keep up.\u201d<\/p>\n

And even though she initially broke big in America, Baez wanted to play her final shows in Europe. \u201cEurope has been faithful to me, in some ways, at times when the States has not kept up,\u201d she said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t blame that on anybody expect my own self and my own career and when I let it kind of go and when I worked hard. At any rate, I love Europe and my public over there. It\u2019ll bring a nice closure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back in April, Baez imagined she\u2019d play \u201cNo Nos Moveran\u201d as the final song at the last show. That tune did indeed kick off the last encore of the night, but she followed it up with the traditional songs \u201cDonna Donna\u201d and \u201cDink\u2019s Song (Fare Thee Well),\u201d which has been her standard closer on this tour.<\/p>\n

Baez\u2019s future plans are unclear, but she knows she wants to keep making music in some form. \u201cI think that the main thing for me will be the painting because it\u2019s pretty well established by now that I\u2019m heading off to do that,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve never taken much time to do nothing, which I think is pretty important, especially at my age, and sort of contemplating what is coming. In this culture, we spend most of our time trying to avoid it. I would like to have more of a Buddhist approach.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sixty years to the month after making her debut at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez wrapped up her career as a live performer Sunday evening with a show at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain. The emotional concert featured a cross-section of songs she\u2019s been playing for decades, including \u201cDiamonds and Rust,\u201d \u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-488528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 04:27:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}