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Fact #33767

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When Win Stracke opens the The Old Town School of Folk Music at North and Sedgwick Avenues, Chicago, Illinois, USA, his friend Big Bill Broonzy plays the first concert. Having undergone lung cancer surgery, Broonzy cannot sing but he plays guitar, in the relaxed but dynamic fingerstyle technique he had perfected over the years.