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'60s anti-war balladeer Baez 'not approved' for Iraq wounded concert

WASHINGTON -- Military authorities who run Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital have spurned an offer from renowned folk singer Joan Baez to perform for convalescing US troops, she said Wednesday.

John Mellencamp at a concert for ailing soldiers, but US officials declined to sign off on her participation, she wrote in a letter published Wednesday in the Washington Post.

"Four days before the concert, I was not 'approved' by the Army to take part," she wrote.

When originally invited by Mellencamp to share the stage with him, Baez -- a world-famous balladeer best known for her recordings of 1960s and 1970s anti-Vietnam war anthems like "Blowin' in the Wind" -- said she accepted immediately.
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