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The Standing Tall Against Poverty Festival begins in Accra, Ghana, Africa, with artists including Salif Keita, Mac Tontoh and Seun Anikulapo.
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The four day long Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, Washington, USA, continues with performances by Trey Anastasio, Citizen Cope, John Butler Trio, Digable Planets, Lemony Snicket, Andre Feriante, DeVotchKa, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Samite, Minus the Bear, Harvey Danger, Visqueen, The Academy Is..., Hidden In Plain View, Mavis Staples, Tift Merrit, Billy Joe Shaver, The Bill Frisell Trio, The Charlie Hunter Trio and The Duke Robillard Band.
Boy band 98 Degrees reunite for a fundraising concert in support of member Justin Jeffre's campaign for mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. 
Rock'n'roll pioneer Fats Domino, feared dead in the devastation caused in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, by Hurricane Katrina, is proved to be alive when his daughter recognises him in a newspaper photograph in which he is being rescued.
Dan Hicks And The Hot Licks play at Temple Bar Music Centre, Dublin, Ireland, Europe.
On her Greatest Hits tour, Donna Summer plays the first of two nights in the Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The multiple act heavy rock travelling festival Gigantour, featuring Megadeth, Anthrax, Dream Theater and others plays in Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Christina Aguilera is paid £1.2m to perform for less than an hour at the marriage of Russian billionaire businessman Andrey Melnichenko and model Alexandra Koktovic in Antibes, France, Europe. Whitney Houston, Julio Iglesias and Enrique Iglesias also perform at the wedding.
Supernature by Goldfrapp enters the UK pop albums chart No2, making it the highest new entry of the week. James Blunt remains at No1 with Back To Bedlam.
Macy Gray flies in to New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, to hand out clothes and toiletries in the Astrodome as a gesture of support for the Hurricane victims, while R.E.M., Moby, Green Day and The Beastie Boys publicly ally themselves with left-wing grass roots political pressure group MoveOn.org to raise awareness of the need to supply housing for hurricane victims.