JOAN BAEZ ~ Donna Donna ~
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Uploaded by Scout4Me1 on Aug 31, 2009
Joan Baez ~ DONNA DONNA ~ Joan says: One of the most recent stories about this song is from May, 1989, when I was still in Czechoslovakia, while the Communist government was still well-entrenched. Humanitas International and I had invited some of the leading dissidents to my concert, incuding Vaclav Havel ( who later became the President of Czechlslovkia). Ot was a government-televised concert and police were all over the place. We had people sit with out dissident friends to keep them from being arrested.
"I sang and then invited a banned Slovakian musician to the stage where we got the microphones turned off for the first time. When I introduced Havel, the audience went wild. To close the concert I asked the "legitimate singers who performed before me to sing the encore with me. They were very hesitant, but I was able to persuade them. I hit about two notes of "Donna Donna" when the sound was cut again. But without a microphone in a hall of about 4,000 people we sang "Donna Donna." You could have heard a pin drop. Someone had taken the very serious personal risk of turning off the house music. Even the police were to embarrassed to interrupt and do their job. It was an important moment ------ a big victory. Recorded in concert for CBC Radio Montreal, Canada, 1969.
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that was great!
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gyönyörű hang
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müziğin dili dini ırkı olmaz!!!!
nefissss
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she really beautifull and i love her voice <3 !~~~
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wij zingen dit lied vaak met onze dochters als een klein eerbetoon aan de vrijheid waarin wij leven.
Prachtige uitvoering. Ontroerend.
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La berceuse que me chantait ma grand-mère en Yddish et je m’endormais apaisé
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Joan playing this in Czechoslovakia was a really great story. A real prove of the power of music.
The song is very yewish, but its power against tyranny works everywhere!
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Juiiif???
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It is a proof that Joan Baez great performance and personality was able to chalange tyrany and to motivate opressed people.
gabykovach 3 months ago 5
I always loved this song. Such an incredible truth expressed so beautifully.
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