Joan Baez takes Fare Thee Well concert tour to S.F. Bay Area

Singer Joan Baez (Photo by Joseph Sinnott)
Joan Baez performs during "An Evening with Joan Baez," a solo act at the18th Annual San Jose Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival at San Jose Center For the Performing Arts in San Jose, Calif. on Friday, September 25, 2009. (Josie Lepe/Bay Area News Group Archives)
Joan Baez in August, 2009.
Joan Baez performs at the San Jose Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival on Sept. 25, 2009.
Joan Baez, performing in concert at the18th Annual San Jose Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival at San Jose Center For the Performing Arts in San Jose, Calif. on Friday, September 25, 2009. (Josie Lepe/Mercury News)
Joan Baez and Yvgeniy Voronin star in "Maestro's Enchantment" at Teatro ZinZanni.Photo credit: Mark Kitaoka/Teatro ZinZanni
Joan Baez, left, embraces Linda Ronstadt at Paolo's Restaurant in San Jose on Aug. 25, 2009 at a press conference for the San Jose Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival.
Folk singer and political activist Joan Baez, 67, surveyed her career in concert at the Birchmere music hall in Alexandria, Va. She told the crowd her voice was "a little scratchy" from the election night revelry. (Washington Post photo by Bill O'Leary)
Folk singer Joan Baez sits in a tree to protest the pending eviction of more than 300 urban farmers from a community garden in Los Angeles, Calif. ( Los Angeles Times photo by Lawrence K. Ho.)
Joan Baez sings at the close of an anti-hate-crime program titled "Not in Our Town!" at the Albert L. Shultz Jewish Community Center in 1999. (Bay Area News Group Archives)
Joan Baez performs at George Wein's Newport Folk Festival 50 in Newport, R.I. on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009. Baez appeared with Bob Gibson at the original Newport Folk Festival in 1959. (AP Photo/Joe Giblin)
Joan Baez performs at George Wein's Newport Folk Festival 50 in Newport, R.I. on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009. Baez appeared with Bob Gibson at the original Newport Folk Festival in 1959. (AP Photo/Joe Giblin)
In this April 5, 2013 photo, Joan Baez speaks to a reporter in her hotel room in Hanoi, Vietnam. (AP Photo/Dinh Hau)
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Folk music icon and longtime activist Joan Baez was the guest of honor at an annual fundraiser held by the Committee for Green Foothills at Coyote Ranch in the Coyote Valley south of San Jose Sunday. Eric Kurhi/Staff
Joan Baez, 76, who was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, talked about the importance of preservation at a Committee for Green Foothills meeting where she was honored on Sept. 24, 2017 at Coyote Ranch near San Jose./Contributed by Ian Webb-Harding
DOWNTOWN STREETS TEAM FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT Folk music icon and 2017 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Joan Baez, left, shares a light moment with Santa Cruz Mayor Cynthia Chase during a ceremony on Tuesday marking the successful launch of Downtown Streets Team in Santa Cruz. Downtown Streets Team is a Bay Area project aimed at ending homelessness by restoring the dignity and rebuilding the lives of unhoused men and women. Founded in 2005, Downtown Streets Team also operates in Hayward, Novato, Palo Alto, San Francisco, San Jose, San Rafael and Sunnyvale, serving over 750 men and women a year. Tuesday’s event included music by local singer-songwriter Keith Greeninger and a signed guitar by Baez as a raffle prize. (Shmuel Thaler -- Santa Cruz Sentinel)

By Jim Harrington | jharrington@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group

PUBLISHED: November 1, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. | UPDATED: November 3, 2018 at 9:23 p.m.

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It’s been the year of the farewell tour, with Paul Simon, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Slayer among the big-time acts who have waved goodbye to local fans in 2018.

There’s even more set for 2019, including three dates with Elton John and a (rescheduled) show with Ozzy Osbourne.

Next up, however, is Joan Baez, the Bay Area folk music hero who has touched the lives of millions during a legendary career that stretches some 60 years.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, who is as well known for her social and environmental activism as she is for her music, is bringing her Fare Thee Well tour to the Bay Area.

And fans definitely don’t want to miss the chance to see Baez on what she’s described as her last “formal” tour. And if you’re wondering how she stays in shape to tour at age 77, go here.

Baez performs Nov. 15 at the Masonic in San Francisco (8 p.m.; $59.50-$89.50, www.livenation.com) and Nov. 17-18 at the Fox Theater in Oakland (8 p.m. Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 18; $55-$125.50, www.ticketmaster.com).

She also has sold-out gigs set for Nov. 11 at Weill Hall at Green Music Center in Rohnert Park (7 p.m.; https://gmc.sonoma.edu/) and Nov. 14 at Jackson Hall at Mondavi Center in Davis (8 p.m.; www.mondaviarts.org).

These shows will surely be celebrations of Baez’s long, storied career, which has produced such memorable albums as 1968’s “Any Day Now” and 1975’s “Diamonds and Rust.”