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The Marlborough International Jazz Festival begins at various venues around Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK. Line up for today, the first of three days of the event, includes The Red Stripe Band, Steve "Big Man" Clayton and the 44's, The Tim Kliphuis Quartet, The Jive Aces, Ray Harris and The Fusion Experience, Sticky Wicett Little Big Band, The Wedding Band, Julie Felix, The Slaughterhouse Quartet, Baraka, The Bob Hall Trio, Built for Comfort, The Overtones and The Bullfrog Blues Band.
The three-day long T in the Park festival begins at Balado, Kinross, Scotland. Major acts appearing on the first day are The Verve, The Stereophonics, K.T.Tunstall and Newton Faulkner.
Chuck Carbo dies aged 82 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Carbo's vocals were a principal ingredient in the success of The Spiders, the New Orleans' premier R'n'B vocal group during the 1950s.
Much-respected blues guitarist, Chris Holzhaus, dies in Mico, Texas, USA. Holzhaus worked with his own band as well as with Doug Sahm, Augie Meyers and Delbert McClinton.
Bluegrass banjo star Eddie Adcock plays his Deering GoodTime banjo while undergoing brain surgery at the Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. A debilitating hand tremor was threatening Adock's career, and he played banjo on the operating table so that surgeons could see precisely where to operate on his brain. Adcock immediately regained his ability and was able to play at full speed once again.Singer Steven Page of Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies is arrested in Fayetteville, New York, on drugs charges relating to cocaine.