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Famous at 18, on the cover of Time magazine by age 21, dubbed the “Queen of Folk,” Joan Baez was far bigger than folk singers had ever gotten. She was a phenomenon.
Facing the end of a 60-year musical career, legendary singer and activist Joan Baez takes an honest look back and a deep look inward as she tries to make sense of her large history-making life and reveals, for the first time, personal struggles she’s kept private, until now.
Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, “Joan Baez, I Am A Noise” is a raw and intimate portrait of the legendary folk singer and activist that shifts back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her final tour and delves into her extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork,therapy tapes, and audio recordings. Baez is remarkably revealing about her life on and off stage, from her lifelong emotional struggles to her civil rights work with MLK and a heartbreaking romance with a young Bob Dylan.
The documentary will be shown, 7 p.m. Saturday, and Sunday, Nov. 4 and 5; and 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8, at the Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main St., Rosendale. Tickets are $10/$6 members. For more information, visit rosendaletheatre.org or call 845-658-8989.
