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Joan Baez Injured In Fall From Treehouse
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/68404/236274
Singer is 'resting comfortably' after spill
By Maura Johnston
Nov 19, 2010
When the Bay Area's weather permits, folk legend Joan Baez sleeps 20
feet above ground in a wall-less treehouse nestled inside a
200-year-old oak on her property. On Wednesday, while disembarking
from the house, she fell to the ground, sending her to the hospital.
Baez was treated for minor injuries at Stanford Hospital after the
incident at her Woodside, Calif., home.
"My contact with nature and the moon and the birds and the trees,
they mean so much to me," Baez said when discussing the treehouse in
an October interview with the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle .
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20101021/ENT0501/10210320/Joan-Baez-to-perform-Saturday
Nancy Lutzow, who works at Baez's company Diamonds & Rust
Productions, told the San Jose Mercury News on Thursday that the
singer was "resting comfortably." Baez's next live appearances are
scheduled for March 2011.
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Joan Baez injured in fall from backyard treehouse
http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county/ci_16650743?nclick_check=1
By Bruce Newman
[email protected]
Posted: 11/18/2010
Sixties songbird Joan Baez had the treehouse built -- without walls
-- 20 feet high in an oak tree behind her Woodside home because she
wanted to sleep with actual birds.
But the folk-singing legend, who once performed the civil-rights
anthem "We Shall Overcome" before half a million people at Woodstock,
was brought unceremoniously to earth Wednesday, falling as she
climbed down from the platform.
Almost four decades after she earned a gold record with "The Night
They Drove Old Dixie Down," paramedics drove the golden-throated
pixie down to Stanford Hospital, where she was treated and released
after it was determined she had suffered only minor injuries.
Baez, 69, was "resting comfortably" Thursday at a secure, undisclosed
and presumably low-altitude location, said Nancy Lutzow, who runs
Baez's Menlo Park production company.
"I sleep in a tree all summer long," Baez told an English blogger in
2008. "I climb up on a ladder, with ropes and things. The birds are
right there in the morning. Sometimes they're flying so close to my
head, I can feel the wind. Those things are heaven to me."
Baez was at the forefront of a musical movement that began in the
coffeehouses of Greenwich Village in Manhattan during the early
1960s, performing the first cover of a song written by the
then-unknown Bob Dylan, with whom she soon plunged into a tempestuous
three-year romance.
After their difficult parting, Dylan wrote the revenge ballad
"Positively 4th Street," in which he sang to his former folkie
allies, "You know as well as me. You'd rather see me paralyzed."
Baez's spokeswoman said the singer shall overcome her injuries
someday -- just not today.
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Contact Bruce Newman at 408-920-5004.
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Folk legend Joan Baez injured after falling from a treehouse
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1331559/Folk-legend-Joan-Baez-injured-falling-treehouse.html
20th November 2010
Folk legend Joan Baez was recovering last night after falling 20 feet
from a treehouse in her garden.
The Sixties singer was taken to hospital after she slipped and fell
to the ground while climbing down from the oak tree which sits in
behind her California home.
She was taken by ambulance to Stanford Hospital where she was treated
for minor injuries and is now 'resting comfortably', according to a
spokesperson.
Joan, who turns 70 next January, had the treehouse built in an
200-year-old oak tree behind her California home and often sleeps
there, weather permitting.
The singer said she wanted the tree for somewhere to meditate, write,
and be 'close to nature'.
She said: 'I sleep in a tree all summer long. I climb up on a ladder,
with ropes and things. The birds are right there in the morning.
Sometimes they're flying so close to my head I can feel the wind.
Those things are heaven to me.'
Baez, who became famous performing civil rights anthems such as We
Shall Overcome, was also known for her three-year relationship with
Bob Dylan from 1961 to 1964.
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