Joan Baez joins Amnesty International tour

Legendary folk singer Joan Baez has joined human rights organisation Amnesty International’s Small Places tour.

Joan joins REM and Sigur Ros on Amnesty’s tour which launched on 10th September. The US star has a forty-year history of human rights activism and was famously influential in Bob Dylan‘s early protest songs

Baez is currently in the UK stretch of a 27-date US and European tour to promote her album Day After Tomorrow.

For more information visit the Small Places Tour’s myspace.