"I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war."
Joan Baez, 1967
From the “Great Folk Scare” to the civil rights movement, the anti Viet Nam war protests and beyond, Joan Baez has been one of my favorite human beings.
Bookmark this comprehensive documentary to chronicle the private life and public career of Joan Baez. American Masters: Joan Baez How Sweet The Sound
A bright spot from 2020
Walking the walk with the bad ass Cellist of Sarajevo, Vedran Smailovic.
Smailović caught the imagination of people around the world by playing his cello, most notably performing Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor for twenty two days, in the ruined square of a downtown Sarajevo marketplace after a mortar round had killed twenty-two people waiting for food there. He managed to leave Sarajevo in 1993, during the second year of the siege that lasted from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996 (1,425 days)[1] and is often mistakenly identified as a member of the Sarajevo String Quartet, which played on throughout the siege.