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Jack Newman And His Orchestra play at The Festival Hall, East Kirkby, near Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, Europe.
Micky Ashman And His Ragtime Jazz band play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashton, England, UK, Europe.
Colin Hicks And His Cabin Boys play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashton, England, UK, Europe, supported by The John Stanley Band and The Debonaires. Hicks is the younger brother of top British rock'n'roller Tommy Steele.Lightnin' Hopkins plays at The Swarthmore College Folk Festival, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA. The concert is recorded and will be released as the album The Swarthmore Concert.
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.
The John Coltrane Quartet, The Woody Herman Orchestra, Gerry Mulligan, Roy Eldridge, Thelonious Monk, Joe Williams, Gary McFarland, The Cecil Taylor Group and others play in The Downbeat Jazz Festival, Festival Corner, Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, USA. 
Sonny Rollins plays at The Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, Finland, Europe, during the Second Annual Helsinki Jazz Festival. 
Big Brother And The Holding Company confirm, by means of a Western Union telegram, their agreement to appear at the upcoming Monterey International Pop Festival.
The Mothers Of Invention (led by Frank Zappa) play at the U.C. Festival, Convocation Hall, University Of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Sandpipers are playing for the last of three days at The San Remo Song Festival, San Remo, Italy, Europe.
The American Folk, Blues And Gospel Festival 69, starring Albert King, Otis Spann, John Lee Hooker and Champion Jack Dupree plays at the City Hall, Glasgow, Scotland.
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers play at The Club De Montreal, during the Festival International De Jazz Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
At Mount Hood Community College, during the first annual Mount Hood Jazz Festival in Gresham, Oregon, USA, a specially assembled band performs a tribute to Steely Dan, playing an entire set of songs composed by the Dan's Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. A studio re-recording of the tracks played at the event will be released six years later by Warner Bros as The Hoops McCann Band Plays The Music of Steely Dan.
Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, England, UK, Europe, begins featuring The Waterboys, The Smiths, Elvis Costello, Joan Baez and Ian Dury. 35,000 people attend, paying £13 for the weekend's entertainments, plus a further 80 pence if they want a programme.
Yngwie Malmsteen is among the artists playing at the Pink Pop Festival, Holland, Europe.
Second day of this year's rain-blighted Glastonbury Festival, in Pilton, Somerset, England, UK, features Working Week, Aswad, Midnight Oil, Untouchables, Ian Dury and The Blockheads and Style Council.
The JVC Jazz Festival takes place at The Concord Pavilion, Concord, California, USA.
The five-day long Big City Blues Summit continues at various venues in Birmingham, England, UK, Europe, featuring Shuggie Otis, Sherman Robertson, Lucky Lopez Evans, Johnny Mars, Dave Kelly, Brett Marvin And The Thunderbolts and many others.
The 1998 Lilith Fair, featuring Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Heather Nova, Beth Orton, Abra Moore and many others, starts off on a 57-date trek at Portland Meadows, Portland, Oregon, USA.
The second day of The Wireless Festival in Hyde Park, London, England, UK, features Basement Jaxx, Roots Manuva, Telepopmusik, Death In Vegas and others.
James Blunt and Tori Amos are among the artists playing at The Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, Europe.
Second day of the Guilfest at Stoke Park, Guildford, England, UK, features Paul Weller, Echo And The Bunnymen, Thunder, Blue Rodeo and more.
Second day of the Rockinbeerfest gets underway at The King's Bush Centre, Godmanchester, Cambridge, England, UK. Artists playing over the three days of the event include Dr. Feelgood, Eddie And The Hot Rods, Hazel O'Connor, Caravan, Hugh Cornwell, Oysterband, John Otway and Ezio.
The four-day-long guitar-orientated Wall To Wall Festival continues in The Krannert Centre, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA. Artists performing today include Daniel Lanois, John Hasbrouck, Eric Lougosch and Cindy Cashdollar.
The Chicago Jazz Festival 2008, a four-day event, comes to an end in Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Artists appearing over the course of the event include Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Eddie Palmieri, Kenny Burrell and Gerald Wilson.
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Wiltshire's most successful ever blues band, The Hoax, play at The Bospop Festival, Weert, Netherlands, Europe.
The three-day-long Sonisphere '10 Festival comes to an end at Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, UK. Acts appearing on this, the final day, include Iron Maiden, Pendulum, Alice In Chains, Slayer, Iggy And The Stooges, The Cult and Funeral For A Friend.
The Fuji Rock Festival, a three-day event, concludes at Naeba Ski Resort, Niigata, Japan. The final day is headlined by Massive Attack, with Atoms For Peace and Vampire Weekend also on the bill.The Home Festival 2012, a two-day event, begins at Dartington Hall, near Totnes, Devon, UK. Artists appearing over the course of the event include Charlotte Church, Show of Hands, Tibet's Tashi Lhunpo Monks, The Dhol Foundation, Ethiopia's Krar Collective and West Africa's Ballet Nimba.
The Global Gathering 2012 concludes at Long Marston Airfield, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK, featuring Chase And Status, Friendly Fires, Labrinth, Jamie Jones, Joris Voorn, DJ Fresh, Nic Fanciulli, The Japanese Popstars, Maya Jane Coles, Above And Beyond, Nero, Sub Focus, Netsky, High Contrast, Gareth Emery, Ferry Corsten, James Zabiela, DJ Redlight, Mark Knight, Funkagenda [DJ], John Dahlbeck, Breakage, Simon Patterson, Rockwell [Drum n Bass], Benga, Youngman, Modestep, Krooked, Flux Pavilion, Shy FX, Ayah Marar, MistaJam, Loadstar and Sander van Doorn.John Otway plays a live gig at The Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France, Europe, to celebrate the imminent screening of Rock And Roll's Greatest failure : Otway The Movie - a documentary about his career.
The three-day long Download Festival begins at Donington Park, UK. Headliners on the first day are Slipknot, plus Bullet For My Valentine, Korn, Papa Roach, Gogol Bordello, Volbeat, Europe, Uriah Heep, 3 Doors Down, Him and others.
During her visit to Glastonbury Festival, Somerset, UK, Festival Founder Michael Eavis presents Dolly Parton with a special plaque recognising RIAA gold, platinum, and multi-platinum sales of more than 100m albums worldwide during her career. 
During their Mechanical Bull Tour, Kings Of Leon play at Rock Werchter Festival, Werchter, Belgium, Europe.The Libertines are presented with the Best Headline Performance Award for their British Summer Time, Hyde Park, London, UK, show during a ceremony at The 11th annual UK Festival Awards in The Roundhouse, London.
On their Drones World Tour, Muse play at Corona Capital Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, North America.
Blair Dunlop is among the artists playing at the How The Light Gets In Festival, Hay-On-Wye, Brecknockshire, Wales, UK
On their Because of severe weather, the second day of the Houston Open Air festival at NRG Park, Houston, Texas, USA, is abandoned. Acts who could not appear as a result, included Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones, Ghost and Skindred.
The Fyre Festival, marketed as an ultraluxurious music event in the Bahamas, collapses leaving angry ticket holders, investors and workers. The event was organised by music business entrepreneur Billy McFarland in partnership with Ja Rule. Also on this day, Blink-182, scheduled to be the headline band for the first night of the event pull out.
Sleeper headline the Star Shaped Festival at Kentish Town Forum, London, England, UK, Europe. Also on the bill are The Bluetones, Space The Band, Dodgy, My Life Story and Salad.
On their 135-date Wonderful Wonderful tour, The Killers play at The Bonnaroo Music And Arts Festival, Manchester, Tennessee, USA.
Rocketman, a biographical musical film based on the life of musician Elton John, is premiered at The Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France, Europe. 
On his No More Tours II tour, Ozzy Osbourne plays at The Summerfest, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, supported by Megadeth.1954 |
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