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Article: Newport folk festival at 50
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- July 31, 2009
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Joan Baez was just 18 when she performed at
the first Newport Folk Festival, a self-described neurotic and high
maintenance teenager who remembers trembling in her sandals as she
waited her turn on stage.
She sang in her signature soprano that night, and her career
quickly took off; she released an album on a major record label,
landed on Time magazine's cover and made repeat appearances at the
festival alongside on-off romantic partner Bob Dylan.
"I didn't faint; I sang, and that was the beginning of a very
long career," Baez says about her 1959 festival appearance. "It's
all very extraordinary that my career has been going on all that
long time and so has Newport."
Baez ...
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