Disco Bars Singer Baez, Issues Apology

BONN — American folk singer Joan Baez has been heaped with flowers and apologies after being barred from a German discotheque because she was a foreigner.

“This stupidity is something that should not be allowed to happen,” Mayor Gerhard Widder of Mannheim said of the incident last week in which Baez was excluded from a nightclub in the southeastern city when bouncers said there already were too many foreigners in the club.

“We have over 20,000 Americans in the city of Mannheim. We have always had good relations with them,” Widder said Friday. “The whole thing is just unacceptable and all those concerned have apologized personally to Joan Baez.

Baez, known for her civil rights and anti-war songs, was on a tour of Germany and had planned to go dancing with her band at the nightclub after a concert.