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Famed soprano Camille D'Arville, popular vocalist Belle Davis billed as "The Southern Song Queen With Her Pickaninnies" and others play the last night of a week at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, Californika, USA.
The musical comedy Babes In The Wood is presented at The Tivoli Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
The "Merry musical success" The Princess Chic is playing at The Columbia Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Weber And Fields' burlesque show Fiddle-Dee-Dee is playing at Fischer's Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Singing Girl! with music by Victor Herbert, plays at The Tivoli Opera House, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Mazetti Troupe, Grattan, White And Company, Katherine Bloodgood, Zara And Zara, Yorke And Adams, Elita Proctor Otis, Lew Hawkins and A.O. Duncan are providing Vaudeville-style entertainment at The Orpheum, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Four Emperors Of Music ("The Refined Musical Comedy Quartet) are appearing at The Orpheum, San Francisco, Caliufornia, USA, along with Nina Morris And Company, Howard And North, The Avon Comedy Four and Susie Fisher.Deborah Ann Downer is born in Oakland, California, USA. During the 1980s and 1990s, as Debbie Abono, she
will become a manager of San Francisco Bay
Area death metal and thrash metal bands including Possessed, Forbidden, Exodus and Skinlab.
Sam Andrews, guitarist for San Francisco-based band Big Brother and the Holding Company, is born in Taft, California, USA.
Peter Albin, bassist with Big Brother and the Holding Company, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.
The Eddie Fitzpatrick Orchestra Orchestra plays in The Hotel St. Francis, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Kingston Trio play at the Purple Onion club in San Francisco for the first time, standing in for popular singer Phyllis Diller who has cancelled her gig.
The Steven Eugene Grove, better known as Euge Groove, is born in Hagerstown, Maryland, USA. As well as carving out a successful solo career, he will play saxophone in the bands of Huey Lewis, Richard Marx, Joe Cocker and Tina Turner.
Tv show Jazz Casual, based in San Francisco, California, USA, features an interview with revered jazz cornettist Muggsy Spanier.
Having just played his final gig with his band The High Flying Birds, Neil Young is headed for Sunbury, Ontario, Canada, when his 1948 Buick Roadmaster hearse breaks down in Blind River. The incident will provide Young with the inspiration for his song Long May You Run, which he will record with The Stills-Young Band.
Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother And The Holding Company and Jaywalkers play at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA.
Jefferson Airplane record She Has Funny Cars and My Best Friend, for their second LP, Surrealistic Pillow, in Studio B, RCA's Music Canter Of The World, 6363 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California, USA.
Quicksilver Messenger Service play at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA.
Quicksilver Messenger Service play the last of three nights at the Both/And Club, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Electric Circus Club opens in New York City, USA. Nominally a discotheque, it will also host gigs by The Velvet Underground, Grateful Dead, Terry Riley, Raven, Soft White Underbelly (later known as Blue Öyster Cult), The Allman Brothers Band, Sly And The Family Stone and The Chambers Brothers.
The West Coast Natural Gas Co., Blue Cheer, Mad River, Freedom Highway, Serpent Power, Burgundy Blues, Raven, Travel Consul, Black Swan and Jade Muse play at Muir Beach, just outside San Francisco, California, USA.
The Grateful Dead, Charlie Musselwhite and Petris play the second of two nights at The Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.
Steppenwolf play the first of two nights at The Civic Auditorium, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Joan Baez, Big Brother And The Holding Company, The Everly Brothers, The Byrds, Country Joe And The Fish, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, The Mothers of Invention, Buffy St. Marie and Wilson Pickett play at The Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California, USA.
Ike And Tina Turner, Jeff Beck, Moby Grape, Canned Heat, Procol Harum, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Lee Michaels, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and others appear at the first and last Palm Springs Pop Festival and San Andreas Boogie in Palm Springs, California, USA.
The Grateful Dead release their palindromically-titled third album Aoxomoxoa on Warner Bros Records in the USA.The Grateful Dead play at the Mississippi River Festival, Edwardsville, Illinois, USA.
The 12th Berkeley Folk Festival begins at the University of California, Berkeley, California, USA. Artists appearing over the four days of the event include Doug Kershaw, The Youngbloods, Country Joe McDonald, John Fahey, Commander Cody, Charley Musselwhite, Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup and Sam Hinton.
Big Brother and the Holding Company play the first of three nights at The Family Dog, 660 Great Highway, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by Kaleidoscope and Devil's Kitchen.Ten Years After play the last of three nights at The Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by Cactus and Toe Fat.
David Crosby records Orleans, in Wally Heider Studio, San Francisco, California, USA, for his solo debut album If I Could Only Remember My Name.
Grace Slick of San Francisco band Jefferson Airplane appears on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
Savoy Brown, Sea Train, Ry Cooder and Humble Pie play the third of four nights at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA.
B.B. King, Ballin'jack and Christian Rapid play the first of four nights at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Dexter Gordon Quartet is playing at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Lynda Williams.
At the 27th Annual Grammy Awards in Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA, winners include The Doobie Brothers 'What A Fool Believes' (Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year); Billy Joel’s 52nd Street (Album, Male Pop Vocal Performance); Rickie Lee Jones (New Artist); Dionne Warwick’s I’ll Never Love This Way Again (Female Pop Vocal); Donna Summer’s Hot Stuff (Female Rock Performance); The Eagles’ Heartache Tonight (Male Rock Vocal Performance). Bob Dylan earns the Best Male Rock Vocal Grammy, for his song Gotta Serve Somebody, which he then performs live.
At the start of his third US tour of the year, Bob Dylan plays the first of twelve nights at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, California.
The Jerry Garcia band plays an Earth Day concert in Hilo Civic Auditorium, Hawaii, USA.The Hong Kong Harbour Fest, part of a government underwritten HK$1 billion program to revive the economy of Hong Kong after the SARS epidemic. Running for almost a month, it will feature artists including The Rolling Stones, Prince, Neil Young and Santana. On this, the first day, the festival is kicked off by Prince and Karen Mok.
In a message posted at the band’s website, Billie Joe Armstrong of 
On her Worldwide Underground Tour, Erykah Badu plays at The Paramount Theatre, Oakland, California, USA.John Doe plays at The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California, USA. (2011).
It is announced that The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guns N'Roses, The Beastie Boys, The Small Faces/Faces, Donovan and Laura Nyro will be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, next year.
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