{"id":2507394,"date":"2026-07-18T15:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2507394"},"modified":"2026-07-18T15:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:14:14","slug":"judy-collins-farewell-tour-doesnt-mean-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/judy-collins-farewell-tour-doesnt-mean-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Judy Collins&#8217; Farewell Tour Doesnt Mean Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"cli cli-embed cli-embed--full-width js-no-inject\">\n<div class=\"js-react-hydrator\" style=\"display:contents\" data-component-name=\"YouTube\" data-component-id=\"5242\" data-component-props=\"{&quot;itemType&quot;:&quot;video&quot;,&quot;isLiveblogEmbed&quot;:false,&quot;index&quot;:0,&quot;contentIndexByType&quot;:1,&quot;contentListType&quot;:&quot;embed&quot;,&quot;code&quot;:&quot;&lt;div style=\\&quot;left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; 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data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\">\u201cSend in the Clowns,\u201d<\/a> is doing a 50-date tour through next spring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>And, yes, while it\u2019s being billed as a \u201cfarewell tour,\u201d Collins is downplaying the notion that it means \u201cgoodbye,\u201d instead preferring to describe it to celebrity.land as \u201ca moment in time where we gather things together and let people see me with what I do with other guests.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Some of the artists who will appear with Collins at specific dates include Richard Thompson, Bruce Cockburn, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Rosanne Cash, among others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201dSo, it\u2019s an opportunity for me to do some duets with people that I haven\u2019t worked with 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And also, Mary, Rosanne, and Amanda.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Collins prefers to call the tour <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kVUwrifwKrI&amp;list=RDkVUwrifwKrI&amp;start_radio=1\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"\u201cSweet Judy Blue Eyes,\u201d \" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a591fb6e4b071ebc1baf3b8\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kVUwrifwKrI&amp;list=RDkVUwrifwKrI&amp;start_radio=1\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\">\u201cSweet Judy Blue Eyes,\u201d <\/a>a reference to \u201cSuite: Judy Blue Eyes,\u201d the classic Crosby, Stills, and Nash song written for her by former beau Stephen Stills.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cI checked [out using the title] with Stills, and he said, \u2018That\u2019s all right, you can\u2019t copyright a title anyway.\u2019 So I\u2019m hoping that Stephen also will come around.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Their last duet together happened in 2025, and Collins was touched by Stills\u2019 presence since she was still dealing with the 2024 death of her husband, Louis Nelson, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/judy-collins-reflects-on-death-of-husband-louis-nelson-11692488\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"designer of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a591fb6e4b071ebc1baf3b8\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/people.com\/judy-collins-reflects-on-death-of-husband-louis-nelson-11692488\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"4\">designer of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cThat was very touching because my husband died at the end of 2024. And I\u2019ve been close friends with Stephen for, well, I don\u2019t know, maybe it\u2019s 59 years or something.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cSo, he came out, and he and I did \u2018Helplessly Hoping\u2019 together, and then he said to the audience, \u2018She married the right man,\u2019 because he and Louis were very good friends, so it was a moment that I will treasure all my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Collins is just one of many music legends who are performing late into their careers, a list that includes Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sort of the Betty White of the folk music revival, anyway,\u201d she laughed. \u201cAnd [when I was growing up], there were always artists who stayed on track for years, for decades, and worked into their late 80s and their 90s, and were up for it, and excited, and I think the main thing is that we love to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cPeople who work love to work. And as long as they can, they will, which I think is phenomenal,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>So while the tour is being billed as a \u201cfarewell tour,\u201d Collins seems committed to not going gently into that good night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Besides performing, she\u2019s working on a book called \u201cThe Voice: Singing Through the Storm,\u201d as well as writing the music for a Broadway play, among other things.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m working on a duets album also, that\u2019s coming out,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m always working, because I love to work, and it makes me feel happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Judy Collins may be currently on a \u201cfarewell tour,\u201d but the 87-year-old doesn\u2019t seem inclined to actually go away anytime soon. 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