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Concert

United States of America · Arts / Music. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1969

John Allen Hendrix18 August 1969

Woodstock · Arts / Popular Music

Hendrix headlines the Woodstock music festival, gives a rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, a solo improvisation which became a defining moment of the 1960s

Names involved

John Allen Hendrix

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