Joan Baez & Sister Mimi Farina Sing Together

Get the complete 90 min concert at https://www.createspace.com/204634 This is one of the best music documentary feature ever made - Live at Sing Sing Prison. Producer Harry Wiland and I filmed inside the joint. In this classic scene, Joan Baez and her sister Mimi Farina, who have rarely performed together, sing onstage for the inmates. Other scenes involve BB King and Joan Baez, Jimmy Walker and the Voices of East Harlem and other performers.

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[edicccc]

interesting is that Mimi's second husband, Milan Melvin died of cancer the same year as Mimi died of cancer. Different types of cancer but it is at least striking.

[allinaday]

Interesting and sad. I did not know Mimi but know that Joan felt she was a very powerful, warm, caring person. A tough story of real-life but it did not stop Joan.

David Hoffman - filmmaker

[putitupmike1]

Two people who carry on the life which was expressed musically be Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. I know others have loved as powerfully, but I am just trying to make a point. They have forever been grounded in the goodness of life and have shared their love for humanity by their life style and their song. These are voices which shall live forever.

[bookkeeper57]

What an appropo song for a prison crowd.

[bboucharde]

One cannot describe the impact, gravitas, and power of Joan Baez to a young person (20 yrs old) now. There is no female vocalist currently performing in the USA who could match her credibility with any audience---even in front of hardened inmates in a maximum security prison. Look at the faces of the men in that audience......Who but a Joan Baez could transfigure them like that? Yes, any current titty-girl hip-hopper could arouse interest on a prison stage, but something special happens here!

[MrBandito100]

If this doesnt put a tear in your eye I dont know what will.

[cookieman38111]

@kathrynsmith724 : Whatever happened to him?

[trifulquita15]

Un poco surrealista escuchar Viva mi patria Bolivia en una carcel en USA

[jaysewall1]

Mimi was abit like Emylou Harris-a giver all the way, great harmonizer and back-up vocalist.

[mccurryburg]

@bookkeeper57 a Bob Dylan is always appropo... and damn good songwriting too

[kathrynsmith724]

I knew Joan's first husband in the peace movement. Prison did not leave him; I don't think he ever got over it.

[MichaelPalinFan2008]

JOAN: ''Some prisons don't let us in even.''

PRISONER: ''YO LET US OUT!''

Brilliant. :)

[davec3487]

I'd start a prison riot after hearing that song.

[SuperPatty55]

I didn't know this hard story about Joan Baez, I've been listening to her songs since I was eight and I got the passion for singing and playing from her, now I know we have something else in common we have both lost someone we love becouse of cancer, that's can only makes me feel even nearer her, I do hope that music has helped to face the loss better