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Mahalia Jackson headlines The Third Annual Festival Of Gospel Music at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA.John Lee Hooker is playing in the three-day-long Northland Music Festival in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Sleepy John Estes, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Sunnyland Slim, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Lightnin
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The first day of The Newport Jazz Festival '65 features Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon, Pete Seeger, Dizzy Gillespie, Les McCann, The Modern Jazz Quartet and headliner Joe Williams.
Carlton Haney stages what is now considered to have been the first bluegrass festival, at his farm near Roanoke, Virginia, USA, featuring Jimmy Martin And The Sunny Mountain Boys, The Osborne Brothers, The Stanley Brothers and more.On the third and last day of The Carnaby Street Fun Festival, including The World's First Mod Wedding Happening, in Michigan State Fairgrounds, Detroit, Michigan, USA, the Velvet Underground and Nico are supported by The Yardbirds. Also on the bill are Gary Lewis And The Playboys, Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs, Distant Cousins, Bobby Hebb and Brian Hyland. The show is MC-ed by Dick Clark.
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience attend a private screening of the ABC documentary about the Monterey Pop Festival. They also take part in a jam at Steve Stills house in Malibu, California, USA. Electric Flag drummer Buddy Miles, South African trumpet player Hugh Masekela and bassist Bruce Palmer are also present, as are members of Moby Grape, who are living in a rented house nearby.
A crowd of 500, armed with rocks and bottles, attempt to storm the gates of the Great American Music Fair in Syracuse, New York State, USA. The event features Jefferson Starship, The Doobie Brothers and The New Riders Of The Purple Sage. The crowd is attempting to turn it into a free festival, but achieves little more than a fruitless riot and sixty arrests.
Talking Heads play in the Dr. Pepper Summer Music Festival at The Wollman Rink, Central Park, New York City, USA.
Girlschool, Budgie, Telephone, Saga, Lightning Raiders, Nightwing, 1990, Lond Tall Shorty and Steve Hackett play on the first day of the three-day long Reading Rock Festival '81 at Reading, UK.
Thin Lizzy play at the Castlebar Rock Festival, Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland, Europe.
Pookiesnackenburger play at The May Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Europe.
A 20th Anniversary of Woodstock concert is held at Molson Park, Barrie, Ontario, Canada, with a line-up including Country Joe And The Fish, John Kay and Steppenwolf, Sha-Na-Na, Buffy Sainte-Marie, John Sebastian, Melanie, Richie Havens, Band of Gypsies and Iron Butterfly.
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers play at Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, during the Festival International De Jazz Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Al Jarreau plays in Montreux Casino, during The Montreux Jazz festival, Montreux, Switzerland, Europe. Jarreau's band includes Randy Crawford (voc), Joe Sample (kybds), Buzzy Feiten (g), Freddie Washington (b), Steve Gadd (dr), Lenny Castro (perc) and Philippe Saisse (synth).
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.
The three-day-long Glastonbury Festival begins at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, England, UK. Acts appearing on the first day include Bush, Dandy Warhols, The Doves, Idlewild, Lost Prophets, Thea Gilmore and Hawksley Workman And The Wolves, Nelly Furtado, Ash, Faithless, Coldplay, Queens Of The Stone Age, Garbage, Spiritualized, The Waterboys, Joe Brown and Dot Allison.
The Vans Warped Tour, plays at The Gorge Amphitheater lot, Seattle, Washington, USA, with a bill including My Chemical Romance, The Offspring, Fall Out Boy, The Transplants, MxPx, All-American Rejects, Dropkick Murphys, Thrice, Atreyu and Senses Fail. 
The third and last day of Fairport Convention’s annual Cropredy Festival held near Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK, features Richard Digance, Beth Neilsen Chapman, The Hamsters and Fairport Convention.Bjork headlines the final night of the three-day-long Connect Festival at Inverary Castle, Argyll And Bute, Scotland, UK, Europe. Also appearing on this night are LCD Soundsystem and others.
Devizes-based singer-songwriter Jon Amor plays at the Bazfest, Great Ayton, Yorkshire, England, UK, Europe.
Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band play at the Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, England, UK.
The compilation LP Darwin Song Project is released on Shrewsbury Folk Festival/Proper Records in the UK. The album features songs with a "resonance and relevance to Charles Darwin", specially written for the project by eight songwriters (Chris Wood, Karine Polwart, Jez Lowe, Mark Erelli, Emily Smith, Rachael McShane, Krista Detor and Stu Hanna) over a period of seven days in a Shropshire, England, UK, farmhouse in March 2009.During the London Jazz Festival, Cleo Laine, John Dankworth and Friends play at The Royal Festival Hall, and The Tord Gustavsen Ensemble + Jason Yarde And Andrew McCormack play at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK.
Marcus Miller plays a concert entitled Tutu Revisited - The Music of Miles Davis at the Orleans Jazz Festival, Orleans, France, Europe.
Kate Nash and Darwin Deez play at the month-long iTunes festival in The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, England, UK.
The first day of the V Festival is held at Weston Park, Weston-under-Lizard, Shropshire, UK. Artists appearing today include Kasabian, Faithless, Pet Shop Boys, The Prodigy, Air and Imogen Heap.
Mogwai, Lamb and Black Dub play in the Miles Davis Hall, Montreux, Switzerland, Europe, during the 45th Montreux Jazz Festival.
78-year-old record producer Quincy Jones begins a hectic weekend of parties and functions at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, USA, which will lead to him being dubbed the festival's 'party animal' of the year. Jones is attending the festival to support his daughter Rashida Jones, who is promoting her picture Celeste and Jesse Forever.
The Flaming Lips play at The NXNW Festival/Young Dundas Square, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Jon The three-day-long London A Cappella Festival, curated by the 5-time Grammy- winning vocal group The Swingle Singers, continues at Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, UK.
Trixie Whitley plays at Club Soda during the Montreal International Jazz Festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Megadeth, Saxon, Aaron Keylock, Aborted, Amon Amarth, Arthemis, Avatar, Biohazard, Collibus, Eradicator, Graveyard, Hærken, King Goat, Leathernecks, Morgue Orgy, Obituary, October File, ReVamp, Satan, Stormzone, Voices and krow play on the fourth and final day of Bloodstock Open Air Festival, Catton Hall Park, Walton upon Trent, England, UK, 
Folk-pop duo Hudson Taylor begin their Singing For Strangers tour with an appearance at The Celtic Connections Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
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
On their 19-date Rock Paper Scissors tour Sting and Peter Gabriel play at The Summerfest, Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
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During his 214-date 24k Magic World Tour, Bruno Mars plays at Pinkpop Festival, Megaland Landgraaf, Landgraaf, Netherlands, Europe.
On their 135-date Wonderful Wonderful tour, The Killers play at Rock Werchter, Werchter, Belgium, Europe.
Two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, claim that Michael Jackson sexually abused them when they were children, in the documentary film Leaving Neverland, which is given its premiere at The Sundance Film Festival in Utah, USA.
Following an outcry from critics of Saudi Arabia's human rights record, The Human Rights Foundation, based in the USA, writes an open letter to Nicki Minaj urging her to cancel her headlining show the Jeddah World Fest in Saudi Arabia, Asia, on 18 July.
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