Judy Collins on the Turtle Doves stage at Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2022. Next festival: August 25-28 2023 | Day & weekend tickets on sale now: shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk/
She's so beautiful. Still. Sounding young, timing, pitch, vocal range and control, she's still got it. Not many can do this as we age. Astonishing. Lovely to see
I’m a big Judy Collins fan. As a teen I saw her at planting fields under the stars with my mother. This concert is forever in my memory as a special night. My mother passed away this year and that memory of us under the stars listening to an Angel sing I will have forever. Judy is one of the few that has kept her gift. When I’m sad I sing along and I’m back in time. Listening to this concert time doesn’t exist. The music does.
Evidently the piano player never learned that they’re supposed to follow the singer. A shame since Judy’s faster paced version of this song is beautiful and exuberant. Her slower paced version of the 70s was depressing IMO. Her voice is much prettier than back then.
Judy Collins in the late 1950's & 1960's was a fabulous folk ballad singer. I still listen to "Golden Apples of the Sun" from early 1960's. She knows so well how to frame a song so it sings itself and tells the story contained in it. I am 83 and a ballad singer and I know that anyone who uses their voice and continues to work with it can do the same. We don't all have her talent, but nobody needs stop singing because they think they are too old. Thank you Judy for being such an inspiration and may you continue to sing forever. I am a neighbor of another fabulous singer in her nineties-the blues and folk singer, Barbara Dane, who has recently put out an album with her Cuban son. Here's to tradition and continuity. Oh- and don't forget the wonderful Peggy Seeger also
