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Joan Baez review – queen of folk bids a poignant farewell

Royal Albert Hall, London
Eco-protests met lover’s laments as the 77-year-old marked her final tour with a stirring reminder of her fighting spirit

Joan Baez has said this will be her final tour, so this was less concert than communion, a congregation coming to terms with its collective past. The audience was greying, supportive and eager to join in with It’s All Over Now Baby Blue, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and The Boxer, the song with which she concluded her 100-minute set.

Whether this extended tour will be her last is another matter – the programme contains a flyer advertising dates in London next year: there could be quite a few final bows. Baez, now 77, has been performing for 60 years and isn’t going quietly.

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