Sarah Yeo

About the show

On this special evening at Barnoldswick Music & Arts Centre, Sarah takes you on a journey through the decades of Baez’s life and legacy. Beginning with early recordings like Harvard Square and the folk club days that brought her to national attention, the performance moves through her pivotal role in the Newport Festival world, her work alongside protest movements, and her evolution as an interpreter of not just traditional material but songs by Leonard Cohen, Phil Ochs, Stevie Wonder, and many others whose voices she helped amplify. The set list reflects both Baez’s foundational repertoire — including Diamonds and Rust, Love Is Just a Four Letter Word, There But For
Fortune, Farewell Angelina, The Banks of the Ohio and House of the Rising Sun — and her fearless embrace of the Spanish-language songs that speak to the breadth of her artistic curiosity and cultural empathy. Alongside these
classics, the show touches on the ongoing relevance of songs that grapple with justice, memory, love and belonging — themes as urgent today as they were in Baez’s earliest years. Sarah’s interpretations honor the original intention of each song while inviting a fresh, contemporary resonance, making this not just a retrospective but a living conversation between past and present.