1974 huge disappointment! No more gala performances during the
Golden Rose Festival! The rock music and pop festival in Montreux has gone to live under different skies. Even if, in this same year, the town has welcomed two good quality musical events:

John Baez Sunday November 25th two shows at 3pm and 8pm. It’s her first performance in Montreux – and she arrives at the concert hall riding a horse! This American folk singer and songwriter is known for her highly individual vocal style. She is also well known due to her early and long-lasting relationship with Bob Dylan and her even longer-lasting passion for activism, notably in the areas of non-violence, civil and human rights and, in more recent years, the environment. She has performed publicly for nearly 50 years, released over 30 albums and recorded songs in at least eight languages. She is considered a folksinger, although her music has strayed from folk considerably after the 1960s, encompassing everything from rock and pop to country and gospel.

Although a songwriter herself, especially in the mid-1970s, Baez is most often regarded as an interpreter of other people's work, covering songs by Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Jackson Browne, Paul Simon, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder and myriad others and the musical Godspell, a 1970 musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak. The structure of the musical is that of a series of parables, taken primarily from the Gospel of Matthew. These are then interspersed with a variety of modern music set primarily to lyrics from traditional hymns, with the passion of Christ treated briefly near the end of performance. The musical opened a year after another religiously-themed successful rock musical, Jesus Christ Superstar.