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The third day of the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, USA, features Dizzy Gillespie, Eartha Kitt, Jimmy Smith, Horace Silver, Dave Brubeck, Billie Holiday and Gerry Mulligan.The First Annual Los Angeles Jazz Festival begins in Los Angeles, California, USA, with performers over the two days of the event including The Hi-Lo's, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, Sarah Vaughan, Shorty Rogers, Nina Simone, Cal Tjader and Machito.
Folk star Carolyn Hester appears at The Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, in a late-night folk and jazz package.
Lightnin' Hopkins plays at The Swarthmore College Folk Festival, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA. The concert is recorded and will be released as the album The Swarthmore Concert.
The first day of The Northern Jazz Festival at Redcar Racecourse, Redcar, UK, features Manfred Mann, Long John Baldry and the Hoochie Coochie Men, The Crawdaddies and The Yardbirds, with Eric Clapton on guitar, and others.
The Count Basie Orchestra, Joe Williams, Chet Baker, The Stan Getz Quartet, The Thelonious Monk Quartet, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mose Allison, The Freddy Hubbart Quintet and others play on the first night of The Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, USA.
The first Monterey Dixieland Festival opens in Los Angeles, California, USA. Over its two days, the festival features Louis Armstrong, Turk Murphy, The Dukes Of Dixieland, The Firehouse Five Plus Two and The New Orleans Jazz Club All Stars.
Fairport Convention, Joni Mitchell, Jackson C. Frank and Al Stewart play in The Festival Of Contemporary Song at The Royal Festival Hall, London, UK.
Pink Floyd play at Camden Free Festival, Camden Town, London, England, UK, Europe.Bob Dylan holds a press conference about the Isle Of Wight Festival at the Seaview Hotel, Isle Of Wight, England, UK, Europe.
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The Caribbean Music Festival takes place at Wembley's Empire Pool, London, England, UK, Europe, and stars Johnny Nash, Desmond Dekker, Jackie Edwards, Max Romeo and Jimmy Cliff.
The Allman Brothers Band plays at The Winter's End Festival, Orlando Speedworld, Orlando, Florida, USA.
Woodstock: Music From The Original Soundtrack, a live album of selected performances from the 1969 Woodstock counterculture festival, is released on Cotillion/Atlantic Records in the USA.
The URGH! New Wave festival begins in The Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, USA, featuring The Go-Gos, The Fleshtones, Joan Jett And The Blackhearts, XTC, Devo, The Cramps, Oingo Boingo, The Dead Kennedys, Gary Numan, Klaus Nomi, Wall of Voodoo, Pere Ubu, Steel Pulse, Surf Punks, 999, UB40, Echo And The Bunnymen, The Police.
Sunnyland Slim, Hubert Sumlin, Louisiana Red, Bowling Green John And Harmonica Phil Wiggins, Lurrie Bell, Carey Bell and Margie Evans play in the American Folk Blues Festival '81 in Zurich, Switzerland, Europe.
The Werrikimbe Music Festival - a three-day event - begins in Wauchope, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania. Artists appearing over the three days of the event include Dragon, Angels, Jimmy Barnes, Rose Tattoo and Eurogliders.
Snooks Eaglin and Earl King headline the First Annual UK Blues Festival, St Asaph, Clwyd, Wales, UK.
The Cure, Bob Dylan, De La Soul, Lenny Kravitz, Mano Negra, Midnight Oil, Ry Cooder And David Lindley, Sinead O'Connor, The Jeff Healey Band and Wendy And Lisa play at Werchter Rock Festival, Werchter, Belgium, Europe.
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The Jersey Jazz Festival, a four day event, begins on the Island Of Jersey, UK, Europe.
A 26-date European tour by The Tribal Gathering 1997 festival, a two day event, concludes at Luton Hoo Estate, Luton, England, UK, Europe. Artists appearing over the two days include Daft Punk, Faithless, Kraftwerk, Paul Oakenfold, Orbital, Cornershop, GusGus, Fluke, Two Lone Swordsmen and Audioweb.
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R.E.M. play at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, Somerset, England, other acts include Hole, Beautiful South, Bush, Blondie, Barenaked Ladies, Wilco, Pavement and Kula Shaker.
First day of the four day long Calgary Folk Festival in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Artists appearing over the course of the event include Shelby Lynne, Jeff Tweedy (of Wilco), Steve Earle and Arrested Development.
The four day long Benicassim Festival gets underway in Benicassim, Spain, Europe, with Underworld as the first headlining act. Acts over the next four days will include Oasis, Nick Cave, Kasabian, Keane, Dinosaur Jr, Fischerspooner and many more. 
The four-day-long guitar-orientated Wall To Wall Festival continues in The Krannert Centre, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA. Artists performing today include Daniel Lanois, John Hasbrouck, Eric Lougosch and Cindy Cashdollar.
The Soho House Festival is held in Chiswick House And Gardens, London, England, UK. Artists appearing include Mark Ronson And The Business Intl, Hot Chip, Little Boots, Friendly Fires, Mumford and Sons, Paloma Faith, The Feeling and Estelle. Celebrities attending include Beyonce and Jay-Z.
Dizzee Rascal headlines the first night of Love Box, a three-day music festival in Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK. Also appearing are The Noisettes, Ellie Goulding, The Maccabees and others.
The Larmer Tree Festival continues at Larmer Tree Gardens, Cranbourne Chase, Wiltshire, UK. Artists appearing on this, the fourth of five days, include Toumani Diabate, Cornershop, Babylon Circus and Chumbawamba.
Scouting For Girls and Diana Vickers play at the month-long iTunes festival in The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, England, UK.
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Fleet Foxes, Zola Jesus, Gang Gang Dance and Off! are among the artists appearing on the second day of The Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago, Ilinois, USA.The LCD Soundsystem documentary Shut Up And Play The Hits premieres at The Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, USA. In an interview after the premiere, frontman James Murphy reveals that he is working on his own-branded line of expresso coffee.
During the SXSW Festival, 
Trixie Whitley plays at Club Soda during the Montreal International Jazz Festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Simon Pegg, Eliza Doolittle, The Foals and eighteen thousand festival goers appear in an anti-poverty video released by Oxfam as part of their Even It Up campaign. Samples gathered from the participants were mixed together into a track called Make A Song And Dance About Poverty by audio-visual remix performer, Eclectic Method (aka Jonny Wilson),
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The Libertines are presented with the Best Headline Performance Award for their British Summer Time, Hyde Park, London, UK, show during a ceremony at The 11th annual UK Festival Awards in The Roundhouse, London.
Gabby Young And Other Animals play at The Love Supreme Festival, Lewes, Sussex, England, UK.
On their Drones World Tour, Muse play at Rock In Roma, Rome, Italy, Europe. Also on the bill are Nothing But Thieves.
On her Delirium World Tour, Ellie Goulding plays at Rock Werchter, Festival Park, Werchter, Begium, Europe.
On their 135-date Wonderful Wonderful tour, The Killers play at Rock Werchter, Werchter, Belgium, Europe.
During his 214-date 24k Magic World Tour, Bruno Mars plays at The Open'er Festival, Gdynia-Kosakowo Airport, Gdynia, Poland, Europe, supported by DJ Rashida.
On the North American leg of his Call The Comet tour, Johnny Marr plays at Ohana Music And Arts Festival, Dana Point, California, USA.1952 |
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