Word: concert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tour through central Illinois farmland, Bush and his wife Barbara rode in a bus with the country singers Loretta Lynn, Crystal Gayle and Peggy Sue, all sisters. At a stop in the town of Wenona, Bush told the crowd that the three sisters had been giving a country concert in the bus, and "I thought I'd died and gone to heaven." George Bush, out of Kennebunkport and Houston, out of Andover and Yale, had a little mountain twang in his voice when he said it, standing in twill trousers and a cowboy shirt. Loretta Lynn, the coal miner...
...Prince concert...
Barbara M. Bolton, a spokesperson for the 1800-member Boston chapter of NOW, said McCalla was chosen to perform because she is supportive of the group's agenda. The women's rights organization has billed the concert as an effort to "support the struggle for women's rights and reproductive freedom...
...will also use the concert to recruit opposition to a demonstration next weekend by the pro-life Operation Rescue, Bolton said...
McCalla agreed to come to Harvard because she was planning to be in Boston for a concert that fell through, according to Bolton. She said the organization arranged the benefit with the singer's producer at that time...