Near ‘starting to wind down on all that’

Holly Near isn’t kidding when she says this may be her “last major tour.”

Since her first performance at the age of 8, the Ukiah High School graduate has been on the go, whether belting out songs in the Broadway musical “Hair,” being a guest on “The Partridge Family,” touring with the Free The Army Tour or creating her own recording company way back in the early 1970s, long before it was commonplace.

And now the 63-year-old activist-singer-songwriter says, “I’m starting to wind down on all that and this may be it.”

But at this moment, she just wants to get out and play the new material off her new album, “Peace Becomes You.”

“I feel like a teenager,” she says. “Let’s get a van and go on the road.”

Recorded in Sebastopol, the new work is a massive 28-song, 2-CD collection featuring original material and songs by everyone from Irving Berlin and Jacques Brel to Gnarls Barkley and Keb Mo.