Woodstock Day 1 – Joan Baez, August 15, 1969
by Young and Very Pregnant Joan Baez Wows at Woodstock
Sweet Sir Galahad was her first really good composition
Miss Baez referred to Woodstock as the eye of the hurricane of that turbulent time, with good reason. She was among the half-millions people who marched on Washington on August 28, 1963, to demand Civil Rights African Americans and other peoples of color, and led them in singing “We Shall Over Come” at the Lincoln Memorial, and she supported peace initiatives throughout the course of the Viet Nam War.
Alfred Hayes’ poem “Joe Hill” set to music by Earl Robinson in 1936, and dedicated to the immigrant labor activist who was framed and executed for murder in 1915.
Here she performs with Jeffrey Shurtleff on vocals and guitar, and Richard Festinger on lead guitar