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Musical comedy The Toreador is presented at The Gaiety Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 675 performances. The burlesque show Wine Women And Song by M.M. Theise is playing twice daily at Kernan's, Washington DC, USA.
A Chinese Honeymoon, billed as 'The English Musical Sensation' is playing at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 364 performances.
Hi Henry's Minstrels are playing during a half-week-long engagement at The Park, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.The Williams And Walker Company's pioneering African-American musical In Dahomey is playing at The Grand Opera House, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of seventeen performances.
Musical The Blue Paradise is playing at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. A review in The Evening Journal hails it as "Replete with good music and excellent songs." The show will run on Broadway for 356 performances.
The musical comedy The Only Girl is playing at The Garrick Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Great Rigolettos, Laura Burt And Henry Stanford, Willa Holt Wakefield and The Theodore Bendix Symphony Players are appearing at B.F. Keith's theatre, Washington DC, USA.
The comic operetta Sari is playing at The Illinois Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The operetta The Chocolate Soldier, starring Bruce Carfax, is playing during a run at The Shaftesbury Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe.
Merald 'Bubba' Knight of Gladys Knight and the Pips is born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York State, USA.
Dennis Harper And His Orchestra come to the end of a series of weekly dates at The Festival Hall, East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England, UK, Europe.During their first proper EMI recording session at EMI's Abbey Road Studio, London, UK, The Beatles unwillingly lay down a version of Mitch Murray's song How Do You Do It?
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The Mills Brothers are playing during three weeks at The Venetian Room, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA.
Cream play at The Ricky Tick Club, Windsor, England, UK.
The Bobby Fuller 4, Ketty Lester and Lenny Welch appear on syndicated tv pop show Shivaree, recorded for KABC in Los Angeles, California, USA.
The The musical Hallelujah Baby!, starring Leslie Uggams, is presented at The Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 293 performances.
The Fifth Dimension begin recording sessions at Wally Heider Recording, Los Angeles, California, USA, for their album The Age Of Aquarius.The Rolling Stones release a new album Get Yer Ya Ya's Out! - The Rolling Stones In Concert, on Decca Records in the UK and London Records in the USA.
The three-day-long Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival staggers into its third and last day on Bull Island in the Wabash River, Illinois, USA. The event was billed as featuring major bands including Black Sabbath, Santana, Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac, Canned Heat, The Allman Brothers, The Eagles and many more. In the end, over 200,000 people arrived instead of the 30,000 expected, and the event has become a disaster, with most of the bands pulling out because of the chaos. Bands who actually do play include Canned Heat, Brownsville Station, Black Oak Arkansas and Pure Prairie League. The angry crowd burns the stage down.
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Blotto play at The Chance, Poughkeepsie, New York State, USA, supported by French Letter.
The 20th Anniversary Of British Rock tour, featuring Gerry And The Pacemakers, Herman's Hermits, Badfinger, Billy J. Kramer and The Troggs plays at The Bottom Line, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.Ivor Cutler plays at The Purcell Rooms, South Bank, London, England, UK, Europe, with Joolz and Dhakka Dedi And The African Heartbeat.
On his Sound And Vision tour, David Bowie plays at MTK Stadium, Budapest, Hungary, Europe, with Kim Wilde as his special guest.
Rush release a double compilation LP, 
Soul Asylum release their fifth LP, And The Horse They Rode In On, on A+M Records in the USA.
Guns N' Roses and Metallica play the thirteenth show in a co-headlining 25-date US tour at The Astrodome, Houston, Texas, USA, with Faith No More as the opening act.
Bow Wow, Omarion and Bobby Valentino play in The Scream Tour in Miami, Florida, USA.
Rascal Flatts play in the Mohegan Sun Grandstand at The Great New York State Fair, Syracuse, New York State, USA.
While touring in support of her tenth studio album, Let England Shake, PJ Harvey plays at The Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Europe.The Script are the musical guests on the BBC tv show Breakfast, live from Media City, Salford Quays, Manchester, UK.
It is reported that Dan McCafferty, vocalist of Nazareth, has quit the band after 45 years, because of ill health. McCafferty, who suffers from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) had collapsed during two gigs earlier in the year.
EDM producer Deadmau5 reveals in a Twitter posting that he has sent a Cease And Desist Order to the Disney organisation for having allegedly having used one of his tracks - Ghosts 'n' Stuff - without permission. This action follows in the wake of Disney attempting to stop Deadmau5 from registering a mouse-head logo which they describe as "nearly identical to our trademarks."On the European leg of their WorldWired tour, Metallica play the first of two nights at Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe, supported by Kvelertak.
On their 135-date Wonderful Wonderful tour, The Killers play at Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Efterklang hold a 'listening event' in advance of the release of their new LP Altid Sammen, at The Michelberger Hotel, Berlin, Germany, Europe.
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