Joan Baez in Boone

July 23 Boone, Farthing Auditorium, Rivers Street. Part of the month-long festival now in its 25th year. Joan Baez is a musical force of nature whose influence is incalculable. Joan Baez continues to show renewed vitality and passion in her concerts and recordings with her mix of traditional ballads, blues, lullabies, cowboy tunes, Woody Guthrie songs and ethnic folk staples. Over the past five decades, during crucial moments in America's history, Baez's albums have served as critical barometers of our times. (828) 262-2040 http://www.appstate.edu/