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Twenty-two year old former Confederate soldier Thomas C. Dula is hanged for the murder of his fiancee, Laura Foster, in Wilkes County, North Carolina, USA. Dala's story will inspire several songs, the best-known of which is Tom Dooley, whose best-known version was an international hit for The Kingston Trio in 1958.
Uncle Tom's Cabin, a play with music, is presented at The Academy Of Music, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 88 performances.
The Dewey Extravaganza Co perform in a Grand Vaudeville Bill at The Dewey Theatre, Washington, DC, USA.
Blackface minstrel entertainer Lew Sully is appearing at The Orpheum Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA. Also on the bill is Mlle. Chester with her "$10,000 Statue Dog".
The Caledonian Society holds a Grand Festival (advertised as 'A nicht in Auld Scotland') celebrating the 144th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, in Turner Hall, Houston, Texas, USA.
UK tv show Elvis Presley [billed as The Folk Music Fireball] and Johnny Cash play at The Von Theater, Booneville, Texas, USA.
The BBC Home Service radio station in the UK transmits the third of its historic 'radio ballads' - documentary programmes of folk music and interviews - entitled Singing The Fishing. It will be broadcast in over eighty countries and will win the Prix d'Italia in October.
When The Kingston Trio appears at a Santa Rosa Boys' Club fundraiser in Santa Rosa, California, USA, new member John Stewart makes his live debut with the group.Bob Dylan and his friend Gil Turner record Fare-Thee-Well for Broadside magazine in New York City, USA.
The Osmond Brothers (aka The Osmonds) perform Mobile and I Want To Be In Chicago Town, on the Andy Williams Show on tv in the USA. Peter Lawford, The New Christy Minstrels and Martha Raye are also guests on this edition of the show.
Folk duo The Goldcoast Singers is appearing at The Ice House, Pasadena, California, USA, during a four-week booking, with The Willow Creek Ramblers.
Influential Canadian folk trio The Halifax Three come to the end of a North American tour with a show at Carnegie Hall, New York City, USA. The group includes members who will go on to join The Lovin' Spoonful and The Mamas And The Papas.
Inspired by the questions asked in Bob Dylan's song Blowin' In the Wind, Sam Cooke records A Change Is Gonna Come for RCA Victor Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Ed McCurdy plays the last of four nights at Main Point, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA.
Vaughn Meader, and folk group The Au Go Go Singers (featuring two future Buffalo Springfield members, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay), play at The Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
English folk-pop duo 
Marianne Faithfull, Patty Duke, The Righteous Brothers, Bobby Sherman, Major Lance, Diane Renay and Linda Carr apear on tv show Shindig! in the USA.
Toumani Diabaté, internationally famed as The Kora Prince of Mali, is born in Mali, Africa.
A four day event, The Blues Bag, comes to an end at the Cafe Au Go Go in New York City's Greenwich Village, featuring John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Fred Neil and The Blues Project.Simon And Garfunkel record the song America for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.
Revered Appalachian fiddler and banjo picker Henry Reed dies aged 84 because of a blood clot which formed a month after his foot was amputated because of an infection.
David Crosby records the songs The Wall Song, Games, Tamalpais High, Laughing, Wooden Ships, and Kids And Dogs, at Hollywood Recorders, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Glenn Yarborough plays at The University Of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.Another in the series of Sound-Out Mini-festivals begins in Woodstock, New York State. Running over the Labor Day weekend, this one features Tim Hardin, Major Wiley, The Blues Magoos, Chrysalis and Happy And Artie Traum.
The Velvet Underground, supported by Tim Buckley, play the last of three nights at The Avalon, San Francisco, California, USA.
Folk supergroup The Pentangle play at The Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
Bob Dylan plays the second of two nights at the Westfallenhalle, Dortmund, West Germany, Europe.
On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the second of four nights at the Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California.
Bob Dylan plays at Hill Auditorium, University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
The Cure, Bob Dylan, De La Soul, Lenny Kravitz, Mano Negra, Midnight Oil, Ry Cooder And David Lindley, Sinead O'Connor, The Jeff Healey Band and Wendy And Lisa play at Werchter Rock Festival, Werchter, Belgium, Europe.The Real World Week Of Recording begins at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios complex in Box, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe. Artists taking part include Sinead O'Connor, The Holmes Brothers, The Grid and Van Morrison.
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American folk singer and songwriter Derrol Adams dies aged 75 in Antwerp, Germany, Europe.
Cara Dillon plays at The Grand Opera House, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, Europe. The show is recorded and will be released as a DVD entitled Cara Dillon Live At The Grand Opera House.The Carrivick Sisters, Gilmore And Roberts and Philip Henry And Hannah Martin play at The Borderline, London, UK.
Twenty-six years after its release, Especially For You by Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan is declared a million-selling single in the UK.
On their Singing For Strangers tour, folk-pop duo Hudson Taylor play at Plug, Sheffield, UK.
Singer-songwriter Don McLean posts a statement on Twitter declaring, "This last year and especially now have been hard emotional times for my wife my children and me. What is occurring is the very painful breakdown of an almost 30-year relationship." The statement is in response to his recent arrest on charges of domestic violence in Camden, Maine, USA, where he has a home with his wife, Patrisha.
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