For decades, the Glide Holiday Jam has featured a glittering array of R&B, jazz and pop stars, artists drawn by the congregation’s famously progressive ethos, extensive social services and vibrant in-house music program.
But the 40th edition of the annual fundraiser, which packed the Warfield on Thursday, Nov. 13, offered something new — even while hewing to the Jam’s familiar blueprint.
Harkening back to Glide Memorial Church’s founding ideals, Mary Glide presented folk singer Joan Baez with the inaugural Lizzie Glide Spirit Award for a lifetime of art and activism. The longtime Woodside resident, an icon since she came to personify the idealism of the early 1960s folk revival (a period captured in last year’s hit Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown”), said she’s been attending the Holiday Jams for 30 years…