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A Mojo magazine night at the SXSW Festival in Austin, texas, features performances by White Denim, School Of Seven Bells, Rolo Thomassi, Micah P. Hinson, Deastro and the Choir Of Young Believers.
Shay O'Hara, former vocalist of Irish showband The Royal Blues, dies following a brief illness in Sydney, Australia, Oceania.
It is announced that the famous Village Pump Folk Club in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, UK, is to reopen and present live music events again. In the 70s the venue, which inspired the annual Trowbridge Village Pump Festival, hosted some of the greatest names in folk, blues, comedy and jazz, including legendary French violinist Stephane Grappelli, The Tannahill Weavers, Long John Baldry and Fred Wedlock.Blues guitarist and pianist Mel Brown, a long-time staple of Bobby 'Blue' Bland's band, dies aged 69, of emphysema in hospital in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
British band Late Of The Pier are thrown off stage by security men when they over-run their allotted slot at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas.