The Candy Reduction Musicians Fund, which supplies providers and monetary help for profession musicians and professionals, pays tribute to legendary singer Joan Baez with a profit live performance at the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco on Feb. 8. Confirmed performers embrace Baez, Emmylou Harris, Hozier, Rosanne Money, Margo Worth, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Morello, Joe Henry, Lucinda Williams, and Taj Mahal, with shock visitors and extra performers to be introduced shortly. Tickets for the occasion might be on sale December 20. 

Baez has endured as a musical pressure of nature for over six a long time, with an unwavering dedication to social activism and the humanities. Her traditional early Nineteen Sixties folks recordings attracted a era who carried songs like “Home Of the Rising Solar” and “Babe, I’m Gonna Depart You” into the rock lexicon. She was inducted into the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame in 2017. Although Baez stopped touring in 2019, she has been the topic of the movie, “I Am the Noise,” and has launched a e book of drawings, “Am I Fairly After I Fly?,” and a e book of poetry, “When You See My Mom, Ask Her To Dance.”

Baez additionally appeared at Selection‘s 2023 Hitmakers occasion and introduced Boygenius with the Group of the 12 months award, telling the shocked bandmembers, “‘I’ve seldom heard harmonies as true and as fucking angelic as yours.”

Of the forthcoming profit live performance, Emmylou Harris says, “So completely happy to be part of celebrating my pricey pal Joan Baez!”

Aric Steinberg, Government Director at Candy Reduction Musicians Fund provides, “We’re past thrilled to rejoice 30 years of Candy Reduction whereas honoring the good Joan Baez and her superb profession.  Joan has supported our charity for a few years, and it’s a privilege to honor her this 12 months alongside so many unbelievable artists. It is going to be an evening to recollect and I’m so grateful to Joan and the entire performers who will assist make sure that our music neighborhood continues to have Candy Reduction as a useful resource for emergency monetary help.”

Joe Henry, musical director for the live performance, says, “Joan Baez is a mountain on our panorama, and has been for the whole thing of my lifetime. As a lot as any artist I do know, she has dismantled the wall between public artistry and private conviction —investing every with the opposite, to create a physique of labor that, within the phrases of Woody Guthrie, “comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfy.

“What a singular honor, then, for all us to collect in honor of her —and to learn the heroic group Candy Reduction, that gives monetary help to musicians in well being disaster. Come February eighth at San Francisco’s historic Masonic Auditorium —in her identify, and in these depraved instances— we’ll increase our voices as Joan has.”

The February occasion is a part of an ongoing collection of exhibits introduced by Candy Reduction Musicians Fund. It serves as a follow-up to 2024’s Ramblin’ Jack Elliott tribute which featured performances by Nathaniel Rateliff, Jackson Browne, John Oates, Mike Beck, and extra. Shock visitors included Bob Weir and Joan Baez.

Candy Reduction Musicians Fund supplies providers and monetary help for profession musicians and music trade professionals. Grants are earmarked for medical and important residing bills, together with insurance coverage premiums, prescriptions, medical remedy and operative procedures, housing prices, meals prices, utilities, and different fundamental requirements.