Joan Baez

Appeared at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970

Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style

Baez's true professional career began at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival; she recorded her first album for a major label, Joan Baez, the following year on Vanguard Records. The collection of traditional folk ballads, blues and laments sung to her own guitar accompaniment sold moderately well.