extracting only unique row from csv based on multiple column criteria ?

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basically i have rows after rows of data

there are lot of overlapping event that happens at same venue and date.

so i would like to end up with only unique events by matching event, venue, date.

is this possible in excel , how to approach this ? VBA ? or some option i dont know about ?

thank you.

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