Dagmar Havlová and Joan Baez met in the office of Václav Havel
Joan Baez and Dagmar Havlová met in the former office of Václav Havel, which is now managed by the Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation Vize 97. The famous American songwriter who, among others, performed at the concert “this is it” organized by the Foundation Vize 97 in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, first met with Václav Havel in Bratislava in June of 1989, when she not only welcomed him publicly from the podium at her concert, but also snuck him into the hall before that. “I did not want the secret police to get me before the concert, so I made up that I am a roadie. I carried her guitar around for her,” Václav Havel recalled later on.