Joan Baez
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How to cope when work dries up: Lessons from a casual worker
- TV, Radio, Web
- March 24, 2020, 05:30
As most freelancers and casual workers already know, cobbling together a rent cheque each month can be a frustrating and precarious endeavour. And th(...)

Photographer of choice for musicians and movie stars, Terry O’Neill, dies at 81
- People
- November 19, 2019, 00:18
Terry O’Neill, who as a novice photographer found himself shooting pictures of an up-and-coming group called the Beatles and never looked back – spend(...)

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen and cine-revellers of every type, to the mesmerising motion picture and humbly titled extravaganza Rolling Thunder(...)

The ‘Irish Tinker Lady’ whose songs captivated London
- Abroad
- January 16, 2019, 10:00
In the 1930s, a 16-year-old took to the roads of Ireland to make her living as a street singer. Her striking appearance and waist-length black hair co(...)

‘The music teacher said to me: you haven’t a musical note in your body’
- Music
- August 6, 2018, 10:02
Tony Wright still remembers the day his music teacher told him exactly what he didn’t want to hear. “I remember going for orchestra tryouts in primary(...)

Sigrid, Paloma Faith, Bell X1, Joan Baez: this week’s rock and pop highlights
- Music
- March 17, 2018, 03:00
The Stunning Opera House, Cork Saturday March 17th 8pm €35 corkoperahouse.ie Theatre Royal, Waterford Sunday March 18th 8pm €29 theatreroyal.ie Dolan(...)
![Trump Resistance: Following the US president’s election a year ago, “one thing people seemed to cling to in the darkness and despair – [was] the sky is falling, but at least the tunes will be banging”. Photograph: Getty Trump Resistance: Following the US president’s election a year ago, “one thing people seemed to cling to in the darkness and despair – [was] the sky is falling, but at least the tunes will be banging”. Photograph: Getty](/polopoly_fs/1.3358735.1516197465!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_140/image.jpg)
Stop children, what’s that sound?: Trump-wave protest music
- Music
- January 18, 2018, 05:00
It was the middle of 2017 – 12 toxic, corrosive months that consistently found new ways to chill the soul – and I was reviewing a four-minute song. Af(...)

Various: Milk of the Tree - an Anthology of Female Vocal Folk and Singer-Songwriters 1966-73 album review
- Album Reviews
- June 28, 2017, 11:00
There may be a better version of gender equality now, but in the 1960s, in the early stages of the pop/rock music industry, there was both a shocking (...)

Tupac and Joan Baez enter Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Music
- April 8, 2017, 16:18
Late rapper Tupac Shakur and 1960s protest singer Joan Baez were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Friday, on a night where nostalgia wa(...)

Swing Low Sweet Chariot: The slave song appropriated by English rugby
- International
- March 18, 2017, 05:00
I looked over Jordan and what did I see. There are a variety of theories how the most treasured and widely recognised African-American spiritual so(...)