Judy Collins announces farewell tour

Judy Collins has announced a farewell tour that will begin this summer.

Billed as the Sweet Judy Blue Eyes Tour, Collins will kick off her final raft of shows in June.

Throughout the tour, Collins, who is 86, will be joined by special guests Richard Thompson, the High Kings, Bruce Cockburn, Elles Bailey, Livingston Taylor and more.

She then plans to follow up the main tour with the Sweet Judy Blue Eyes - Celebration Encore, "a series of encore performances for devoted fans and new audiences alike".

The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter has released more than 30 studio albums in her six-decades-long career. She's celebrated for her mix of folk and Americana music and her pure soprano voice.

Collins is perhaps best known for her 1967 Grammy-winning cover of Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now and her 1975 hit, Send in the Clowns.

She enjoyed further success with her recordings of Someday Soon, Chelsea Morning and Turn! Turn! Turn!. She also famously inspired the Crosby, Stills & Nash song Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.

On 24 March, Collins' singing career will be honoured as she is inducted into the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame, along with Leonard Cohen, Aretha Franklin, Jackson Brown, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Neil Young.