On a recently aired KQED special about the Greenwich Village music scene, Tom Paxton remembers that although she wasn't a prolific writer, when Collins wrote a song it was almost always a winner. Although she is mostly known for bringing such artists as Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell into the mainstream with such hits as 'Suzanne' and 'Both Sides Now,' Collins, 72, like so many folk singers of the 1960s, is also a songwriter and activist in her own right.
The daughter of a Colorado radio personality, Judy Collins, a classically trained musician, fell in love with folk singing and started making the rounds when she was a teenager. Facebook Twitter Email Judy Collins is performing at the Rrazz Room James Veysey
