Joan Baez retired from touring in 2019, but you can still catch the folk icon on special occasions—and in February 2025, the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund will honor her with a benefit concert.

Baez will perform at the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco on February 8th alongside Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Morello, Lucinda Williams, Hozier, Margo Price, Rosanne Cash, Taj Majal, Joe Henry and Ramblin’ Jack Elliot. Ticket sales begin on Friday.

The announcement of the event comes shortly before the release of James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic A complete unknownwhich chronicles Dylan’s life from 1961 to 1965 (sometimes diverging from historical records). In our last one Rolling Stone In the film’s cover story, Monica Barbaro spoke about Baez’s portrayal. “Her life is so much more meaningful than just the role it played in Bob’s life,” Barbaro said. “She deserves her own biopic, limited series, whatever.”

In 2024, Baez made several appearances on stage, including last summer at the Newport Folk Festival – the festival where she made her live debut in 1959. At the annual event in July, she sang the band’s “The Weight” and “America the Beautiful” alongside Hozier and Mavis Staples. In February, she covered Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” at New York’s Tibet House benefit with Maggie Rogers.

“I’m happier with the phrase ‘quit touring’ than ‘retire,’ because to most people that means something like ‘yuck,'” she said Rolling Stone in 2019. “I can’t understand it as a word. I think the most important thing for me will be painting, because it’s pretty clear now that that’s what I’m going for. That’s not why I decided to stop touring, but when I look at it I think, “Oh man, this is what I can do now without interruptions.” I never took much time , to do nothing, which I think is pretty important, especially at my age, and when I think about what’s coming. In this culture we spend most of our time avoiding it. I would like to have a more Buddhist approach.”