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Beyond the Ozarks

Now Playing: Everly Brothers, Herman's Hermits and The Beatles

KUAF | By Kyle Kellams

Published June 7, 2021 at 11:42 AM CDT

For this week's dip into archives from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, we explore concerts in Arkansas from the 1960s and '70s. War Memorial Stadium and Barton Coliseum attracted some of the top acts in the country.

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Kyle Kellams

Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.

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