Joan Baez makes Bab Al Makina vibrate

Resplendent, Joan Baez, "Queen of Folk" and mythical figure of the hippie movement, "Peace and Love", hosted the Bab Al Makina stage on Saturday evening with her grace, her deep voice and her guitars, revisited her famous repertoire, covered Dylan and magnificently closed the 18th edition of the Fès Festival of World Sacred Music. Alone with her guitar at the beginning and subsequently accompanied by a percussionist and a multi-instrumentalist who plays everything: guitar, mandolin, banjo, piano, acoustic bass, she led a conquered audience into the 60s and 70s and into folk, this traditional American popular music, which has become over the years a tool for political protest. She sang with great emotion about love, tolerance and peace as she does everywhere she travels. She captivated the audience with her "God is God" by Steve Earle, a song from her latest album (Day After Tomorrow, re…