A folk icon sings and weaves stories at An Evening With Judy Collins, at the Massey Theatre March 30
Look forward to tales of hanging in Greenwich Village and Laurel Canyon with the likes of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen
Judy Collins.
An Evening With Judy Collins is at the Massey Theatre on March 30 at 7:30 pm
THE RELEASE OF A Complete Unknown has music fans digging back into folk music’s golden era of the 1950s and ’60s.
Now one of its living legends is coming to the Massey Theatre: octagenarian singer Judy Collins will sing and tell stories about her years hanging in Greenwich Village and Laurel Canyon with the likes of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. As audiences will hear, Collins was a Denver music prodigy who was already well on her way to becoming a concert pianist when she got swept up into the folk movement.
Fun facts: she sang both Cohen’s “Suzanne” and Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides, Now” in their first recordings.
Collins became so iconic on that scene that she’s been eternalized in the Crosby, Stills and Nash song “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”.
She continued her rise through the 1970s, including a breakout version of “Send in the Clowns” that took a 1975 Grammy for song of the year.
The prolific artist was honoured decades later by the likes of Dolly Parton and Rufus Wainwright with the album Born to the Breed: A Tribute to Judy Collins.
Amazingly, Collins still performs more than a hundred times a year, becoming a multi-hyphenate artist who makes films, heads a record label, works for UNICEF and other charities, and serves as a keynote speaker for mental health. In sum, there will be no shortage of stories to tell or songs to sing. 
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