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Mr. Geo. C. Boniface Jr, Miss Bertha Waltzinger, Miss Katherine Bloodgood, The Ellinore Sisters, Fred Niblo, The Great Kaufman Troupe, Carelius Emilo Christiani, The Merry Mannikins and Galetti's Monkey Comedians are playing at Chase's Polite Vaudeville Theatre, Washington DC, USA.The Gay Butterfly Extravaganza Company, featuring The Meredith Sisters vocal group plus 'two burlesques and 25 pretty girls', opens at The Empire Theatre, Washington DC, USA.
The Utopians, comprising 'Two big burlesques together with Seven Big Vaudeville Acts" is presented at Kernan's Theatre, Washington DC, USA.The Primrose And Dockstader Minstrels play the last of five nights at The Belasco Theatre, Washington CD, USA.
Bennie Moten and His Orchestra play the fifth night of a week of shows at The Howard Theatre, Washington DC., USA.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play the last of six nights at Eastwood Gardens, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play at Roseland Ballroom, Claremont, New Hampshire, USA.Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play at The Lake Shore Country Club, Glencoe, Illinois, USA.
Jazz vocalist Billy Eckstine plays the fourth night of two weeks at The Cave, Vancouver, Washington, USA.
The Count Basie Orchestra plays at The Howard Theater, Washington, DC, USA, with George Kirby (mimic), Bill Bailey (tap dancer), Irene Williams (vocalist) and The Norma Miller Dancers.
Perry Como is presented with an award as Top Show Business Personality Of The Year by The Washington Variety Club, Washington DC, USA.Lloyd Price plays the fourth night of a week at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA, supported by Mickey And Sylvia.
Lloyd Price plays the sixth night of a week at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA, supported by Mickey And Sylvia.
Gene Vincent And The Blue Caps play the third night of a week at the Casino Royal, Washington DC, USA.
Folk musician Pete Seeger, under indictment for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions of the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955, states to a press conference in New York City, USA, that he will continue to refuse "to answer questions as to my associations, my philosophy or religious beliefs, or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs."Fats Domino, Chubby Checker, The Shirelles,The Drifters, Bo Diddley, Ben E. King and Chuck Jackson set off on a new package tour, The Biggest Show Of Stars for 1961, with its first show at the Uline Arena, Washington DC, USA.
Ike And Tina Turner, The Olympics and Big Maybelle are playing during a week of shows at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.
Jazz trumpeter Taft Jordan records tracks for his Prestige Records album Mood Indigo - Taft Jordan Plays Duke Ellington, in Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Bob Dylan makes a guest appearance at a Paul Clayton concert in The Showboat Lounge, Washington DC, USA. Dylan's song It's All Over Now Baby Blue is said to be about Clayton.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra come to the end of an engagement at New Fack's Club, San Francisco, California, USA.Dave
'Baby' Cortez plays the last of seven nights at the The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.
During a concert at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, Louis Armstrong spontaneously plays a rendition of God Bless America, in tribute to the recently assassinated President Kennedy.President Lyndon B. Johnson invites The Four Seasons to perform at The White House in Washington, DC, USA.
The Serendipity Singers play at George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play the first of two nights at The Standish Hall Hotel, Hull, Quebec, Canada.
The Searchers enter the Billboard Top 40 Singles chart in the USA with their cover version of Love Potion No9, which will give the Liverpool quartet their highest American chart placing, peaking at No3. (It was originally a hit in 1959 for The Clovers).
Ike And Tina Turner play during a week of shows atThe Howard Theatre, Washington DC, USA.
Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington spend the last of three days recording tracks in United Recorders Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, which will be released on the Verve Records LP Ella At Duke's Place.
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra play a Concert of Sacred Music at the Enon Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Country Joe And The Fish play at The Piano Drop in Duvall, Washington, USA. The centrepiece of the event is the dropping of a piano from a helicopter.
Jazz saxophonist, clarinettist and bandleader Barney Bigard dies in Culver City, California, USA, aged 74. Bigard played with Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Joe "King" Oliver and others.
The When Black Flag play at The Peppermint Lounge, New York City, USA, the audience includes Georgetown teenager Henry Garfield, later to find fame as Henry Rollins.
The Zac Brown Band plays 
Mose Allison plays the third of six nights of shows at Jazz Alley, Seattle, Washington, USA.
On her Monster Ball tour, Lady Gaga plays at The Verizon Center, Washington D.C., USA. Gaga stops the show at one point to admonish two members of the audience who she has noticed are fighting.Mia Vermilion plays in the Washington Blues Society Blues Bash, at The Red Crane Lounge, Club Hollywood, Shoreline, Washington, USA.
Eminem is named as the first artist to have earned two Digital Diamond Awards from the R.I.A.A. in Washington DC, USA. A Digital Diamond Award is in recognition of 10m sales of a single. The two singles in question are Not Afraid and Love The Way You Lie.
Jorma Kaukonen plays at Boulton Center for the Arts, Bayshore, New York State, USA.Jorma Kaukonen plays the first of four nights at The Entrance Ramp, Fur Peace Ranch, Pomeroy, Ohio, USA.
Jorma Kaukonen plays at Mountain Ridge Country Club, West Caldwel, New Jersey, USA.1902 |
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