Updated: July 26, 2009, 12:55 pm

Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center Hosts Joan Baez

Joan Baez will perform to a sold out house at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center on Sunday, July 26 at 8:30 p.m. Image courtesy of WHBPAC

Westhampton Beach - One of the most brilliant folksingers of our time, Joan Baez will perform to a sold out house at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center on Sunday, July 26 at 8:30 p.m. in the Mollie Parnis Auditorium.

Baez has influenced nearly every aspect of popular music during her five decade career. A true American icon, Baez possesses a once-in-a-lifetime, crystal clear soprano. Powerful, yet intimate and highly personal, Baez's expressive voice can touch your heart and move your soul! Come hear why she remains the reigning queen of American folk music.

More About Joan Baez
• Joan Chandos Baez was born in Staten Island, NY. Her father was a physicist and is co-inventor of the x-ray microscope and author of one of the most widely used physics textbooks in the U.S.

• 2008 and 2009 are landmark years for Baez, respectively marking 50 years since she began her legendary residency at Boston's famed Club 47 and 50 years since she made her debut at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival.

• In April, Baez re-released "Ring Them Bells," a recorded souvenir of her performance at New York's legendary Bottom Line in 1995. Her label will simultaneously reissue 1997's "Gone From Danger," a collection which showcases Baez's role as a musical curator and interpreter of songs.

• "Day After Tomorrow," her first studio album in five years (released Sept. 9, 2008), was nominated for a Grammy award and produced by Steve Earle who will also be performing at the WHBPAC on Sept. 6 with his wife, Allison Moorer.

• Baez remains a musical force of nature whose influence is incalculable - she's marched on the front line of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King, inspired Vaclav Havel in his fight for a Czech Republic, sung on the first Amnesty International tour and just last year, stood alongside Nelson Mandela when the world celebrated his 90th birthday in London's Hyde Park. She brought the Free Speech Movement into the spotlight, took to the fields with Cesar Chavez, organized resistance to the war in Southeast Asia, then 40 years later saluted the Dixie Chicks for their courage to protest war.

For information on Joan Baez visit www.joanbaez.com.

Generously sponsored, in part, by The Ann Liguori Foundation and Suffolk County. Media Sponsor WEHM 92.9 & 96.9FM and WLIU 88.3FM, tickets are $95, $80, $65. Contact the Box Office at 631-288-1500. The Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center is located at 76 Main Street
Westhampton Beach. Hours are seven days a week, from 12 noon to 8 p.m. and later on show nights, or visit www.whbpac.org.