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Folk

Clark's New Royals are appearing twice daily at Kernan's Theatre, Washington DC, USA.
Cohan And Harris' Minstrels - with "100 Honey Boys" - play at The New York Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
Vocalist Hardy Williamson records Mother Machree for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.
Paul Robeson begins a two-month concert tour, opening at the Town Hall, New York City, USA. During this tour, Robeson expands his repertoire to include Russian, Irish, English and other folk songs.
Promoter Jean Thomas stages the first American Folk Song Festival, at Four Mile Fork Of Garner, on the Mayo Trail fifteen miles south of Ashland, Kentucky, USA. The event features eighteen acts but, by 1938, it will feature 42 acts playing to an audience of 20,000.
Dolan Ellis, singer, guitarist and founding member of hit-making 60s folk group The New Christy Minstrels is born in Kansas, USA.
Paul Allen Rothchild is born in Brooklyn, New York City, USA. he will find success as music producer Paul Rothchild, working with The Doors, Janis Joplin, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and many others.
Electric guitar innovator Leo Fender applies for a patent for a 'combination pickup and bridge assembly' - a new improvement to his range of guitars.
Vocalist, composer, lyricist, and keyboardist Mayumi Itsuwa is born in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
A Kiwi Association Variety Concert is held at The Victoria Memorial Theatre, Singapore, Asia.
Teenager Derek Bentley is hung at Wandsworth Prison, London, UK, for his part in the murder of police officer Sidney Miles during a bungled break-in at a warehouse in Croydon, Surrey. The Ballad Of Derek Bentley by folk singer and songwriter Ewan MacColl explores the belief that Bentley's execution was a serious miscarriage of justice. In 1998, Bentley will receive a pardon.
The Hank Snow All-Star Jamboree, featuring Hank Snow, Mother Maybelle And The Carter Sisters, The Rainbow Ranch Boys, Martha Carson And Her Country Gentlemen, The Davis Sisters (including Skeeter Davis) and The Jimmie Rodgers Show plays in Terry Arena, Scottsbluff, Nebraska, USA.
Package tour The Biggest Show Of Stars For '60, featuring Brenda Lee, Duane Eddy, Fabian, Chubby Checker, Freddy Cannon and Bill Black's Combo, plays in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Comedy singing duo The Smothers Brothers continue with a three-week engagement at The Crystal Palace, Gaslight Square, St Louis, Missouri, USA. Second on the bill is teenage singer Barbra Streisand.
The Denver Folklore Center is opened in Denver, Colorado, USA, by local folk music lover Harry Tuft.
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The Sleepy Hollow Hogstompers play at The Boar's Head Coffeehouse in the Jewish Community Center, San Carlos, California, USA. [Hogstomper Jerry Garcia will go on to form The Grateful Dead.]
Folk music's elder statesman Pete Seeger writes a note to young singer-songwriter Phil Ochs, criticising one of his songs, about the John Birch Society, as being 'sophomoric'.
Josh White, The Folksters [featuring banjo virtuoso Paul Champion], Bob Gibson and The Knob Lick Upper 10,000 [featuring Erik Jacobsen] play in the Folk Festival at La Cave, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Controversial stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce is arrested at The Gate Of Horn, Chicago, Illinois, USA, for performing an obscene show. Also on the bill is folk singer and songwriter Fred Neil.
Josh White plays to an audience of 2,450 at The University Of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Florida-based folk group The Vikings Three begin a week of shows at The Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Bob Dylan releases the single Subterranean Homesick Blues/The Times They Are A-Changin' in Germany and The Netherlands, Europe.
Donovan's recently usurped managers, Peter Eden and Geoff Stephens, try to stop him from working by taking out an injunction against him.
The Big TNT Show, produced by Phil Spector, is filmed at The Moulin Rouge Club, Los Angeles, Caliufornia, USA. The show features Ray Charles, The Byrds, The Lovin' Spoonful, Ike And Tina Turner, Bo Diddley, Donovan, The Ronettes, Roger Miller , Joan Baez, Petula Clark, The Modern Folk Quartet. In the audience are Frank Zappa, Sky Saxon, singer and frontman for The Seeds, and Ron Mael and Russell Mael, who will later form the band Sparks. The show, effectively a sequel to The T.A.M.I. Show, will be released as a movie in 1966.
Peter And Gordon play the second night of a week at The Fiesta, Stockton, England, UK, Europe
The Kingston Trio play the last of three nights at The Royal Tahitian Concert Gardens, Pasadena, California, USA.
The Blues Project play the thirteenth of twenty days at the Café Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
The Charles River Valley Boys play the first of two nights at Club 47, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Tim Buckley and Mary McCaslin play the third of thirteen nights at Doug Weston's Troubadour, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Mick Jagger (of The Rolling Stones] and his girlfriend, the singer Marianne Faithfull, are arrested at home in Cheyne Walk, London, England, UK, Europe, on charges of possessing marijuana.
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On a Chrysalis Records package tour, Jethro Tull, Procol Harum and Tir Na Nog play at The Town Hall, Birmingham, UK.
Bob Dylan and his wife Sara spend the first of two days visiting George Harrison and his wife Patti at their home, Friar Park, in Henley-on-Thames, England, UK, Europe.
Bob Dylan's album Desire reaches No1 on the Billboard album chart in the USA.
Harry Torrani, who enjoyed an international career from 1931 until the end of the 1940s, as a live performer and recording artist billed as "The Yodelling Cowboy From Chesterfield", dies aged 76 in a nursing home after suffering a stroke.
On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the third of fourteen nights at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, California, USA.
Gordon Lightfoot plays at Miller Auditorium, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger play at The Singers Club, London, England, UK, Europe.
A two-day long Bob Dylan tribute event begins at Gillestugan, Gothenburg, Sweden, Europe, featuring artists including Valdemar, Ulf Dageby and The Lannart Zimmerman Band. The live album Not Dark Yet In Gothenburg is recorded during the event.
Bob Dylan plays the first of three nights at the Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, Holland, Europe.
Joshua Radin plays at The Academy 2, Liverpool, UK.
Bob Dylan plays at Dehler Park, Billings, Montana, USA.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, plus special guest Muntu Valdo, play at The Music Hall, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, Europe.
Norwegian duo Mona And Maria release their debut album, My Sun, on Jansen Plateproduksjon in the UK.
During their In Pusuit Of Spring tour, Pedal Folk play at A Warehouse, Hackney, London, UK.
On their Singing For Strangers tour, folk-pop duo Hudson Taylor play at The Savoy, Cork, Ireland, Europe.
On their Drones World Tour, Muse play at NOS Alive, Lisbon, Portugal, Europe. Also on the bill are Alt-J, James Bay, The Wombats and Ben Harper And The Innocent Criminals
Devon Sproule plays at The Tin, Coventry, England, UK.
Joanna Newsom plays at The Orpheum Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Buskin and Batteau play at The Me And Thee Coffeehouse in Marblehead, near Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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