There were stars a plenty at the Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin last night.
Hozier was there. So was Mary Black. Glen Hansard was sipping a pint of Guinness when he wasn't tuning his banjo and John Sheahan had his tin whistle with him.
Yet they were all playing second fiddle (excuse the pun) to a global star who was in Dublin for a screening of a documentary about her life, Joan Baez.
And even though Ms Baez has largely hung up her microphone, the musicians in attendance for last night's screening were clearly hoping for a song with the music legend at the end of the night.
After playing the Newport Folk Festival at 18 years of age, Time Magazine wrote "a Star is Born at Newport".
That was in 1965.
Now 83, Ms Baez is as famous for her decades of political activism as she is for her music, and indeed the two became interwoven over the years.
"The activism came a teeny bit earlier than the songs and the guitar and the ukulele and all of it," Ms Baez said.
"All I can tell you is that when I was eight and my parents joined a quaker church, it was about learning about violence and non-violence and nation-state versus human beings and I found that all through the years I've been the happiest and felt the most reason to be here when I was doing music and activism at the same time," she added.
Ms Baez marched with Martin Luther King, she was twice jailed for her activism opposing the Vietnam war and she attended peace marches in Belfast, London and Drogheda during the Troubles.
They were organised by Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams who established the Peace People Movement and went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976.
"It was so clear to me it was a place that I belong, firstly it was with women, which is delightful, it was non-violent and it was in action. it wasn't just somebody talking about something, they were really right there and I just really wanted to be there with them," Ms Baez said.
A founding member of Amnesty International USA, Ms Baez is in Dublin for screenings of a recent documentary on her life at the Lighthouse Cinema at the invitation of Art for Human Rights.
Directed by Miri Navasky, Karen O'Connor, and Maeve O’Boyle, 'I Am A Noise' is an intimate account of the artist and activist's life as well as her personal struggles with anxiety and coming to terms with the distressing realisation that she had been abused by her father.
"I wanted to leave an honest legacy so it is brazenly honest," Ms Baez said.
"The film was not made to help other people, but so many people have come up to me, because I was honest about my own issues and they've had theirs and many of them have not been able to deal with them or hidden them or don't know they have them," she said.
The film also documented Ms Baez' last ever tour, as she said it was "getting harder and harder to sing in a way that (she) enjoyed".
"I've moved onto other things, I'm happy to say," Ms Baez said, adding that she is "enjoying the hell out of this new chapter".
Since she finished touring, she has had two painting exhibitions, and she has published a book of drawings 'Am I Pretty When I Fly?: An Album of Upside Down Drawings' and, most recently, a book of poetry 'When you see my mother, ask her to dance', which she is discussing with poet Paul Muldoon in Seamus Heaney's homeplace in Bellaghy in Derry tomorrow.
"I am so excited by that, I am honoured by that, to show up where his footsteps were once," she said.
"Yeah, I hope I do it justice."
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