LOS ANGELES, Hollywood Bowl,
12 October 1963, Joan Baez Concert

    The Hollywood Bowl is an amphitheatre and public park in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California, United States. It was named one of the 10 best live music venues in the United States by Rolling Stone magazine in 2018. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
    The Hollywood Bowl is known for its distinctive bandshell, originally a set of concentric arches that graced the site from 1929 through 2003, before being replaced with a larger one to begin the 2004 season. The shell is set against the backdrop of the Hollywood Hills and the Hollywood Sign to the northeast.

    Below is an Hollywood Bowl 1963 concert playbill featuring Joan Baez playing on Saturday, 12th October, presented by the Ash Grove and Edwin M Pearl.
     Although it had previously been stated that "Miss Baez would appear solo", the announcement of Dylan’s appearance came as no surprise to folk music fans, as he had been a surprise guest before at some Baez's concerts.
    Joan Baez introduced Dylan to sing and brought him onstage and everyone thought his voice was terrible and people started booing!

     The handbill is one sheet folded into four pages, printed in black on an uncoated cream colored paper stock. The first inner page has an excerpt from an article by John Cohen about Joan, and the second inner page includes hand-drawn sketches by Joan Baez and a small collage of photos of her by Eric Weill and Robert Ayers.

Thank you to Jürgen Wasser for this item. [1124]