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Future performances include organist Andrea Marchal, July 27, and folksingers Oscar Brand and Joan Baez, Aug. 4. In last week's program, violinist Ruth Posselt and pianist Luise Vosgerchian presented a program of four sonatas...
...Joan Baez (pronounced buy-ezz) is a 19-year-old Boston-born beauty of Mexican-Irish descent who made her first big splash at last year's Newport Festival and has since been tagged as one of folk music's most promising talents. In her soft, clear voice, she sings both ballads such as Barbara Allen and rhythm numbers such as We Are Crossing the River Jordan, bringing to each a fine rhythmic sense and quantities of fresh charm. So far, she is best known in the coffeehouses of Harvard Square, where she sings, she says, to troubled...
...most howling moments of the night occurred during the "illegitimate" folksongs, particularly when Miss Baez belted her way through some rock and roll with a bemused pleasure. Although Bill Wood's sense of humor is somewhat less forceful (a combination Maine farmer and West Virginia home-brewer), it is just about as effective in the long run, which is going some...
...dedicated to the technically more legitimate folk-song. In this realm, and particularly in several blues numbers, Bill demonstrated some fine guitar playing. For good measure, he included some calypso songs complete with audience participation ("ooonh!"). He has a pleasant voice, but it was rather overshadowed by Miss Baez's in several of their duets. Her legitimate folksongs were as exciting as her illegitimate songs were funny. Without trying to define just what it is that makes a folksinger better than the usual, finer than professional, suffice it to say that she can communicate a rare and beautiful sadness...
...thus pleasant to learn that Miss Baez will return to 47 Mt. Auburn St. on Sunday evenings beginning March 15. It would be nice to know that Bill Wood would drop by also...