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Joan Baez: Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 6 March 2012

BY THE TIME she got to Woodstock, Joan Baez was six months pregnant and her husband was in jail. It was August 1969 and the end of a decade that had seen her emerge as the undisputed queen of the US folk revival and a leading light in the civil rights movement.

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