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Lorrie Morgan, Sammy Kershaw, Lee Ann Womack and Brooks And Dunn perform at the inaugural celebrations for president George W. Bush in Washington DC, USA.
Reba McEntire steps into the starring role as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun at The Marquis Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. Three months after being involved in a vehicle accident, blues vocalist and songwriter Robert Ealey dies aged 75 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
Jazz flutist, saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger Moe Koffman dies of cancer, aged 72, in Orangeville, Ontario, Canada. He is best-remembered for his internationally successful 1958 hit single Swingin' Shepherd Blues.
Tim McGraw releases a new album, Set This Circus Down, on Curb Records in the USA.
Singer, guitarist and songwriter Ernie Graham, best known as a member of Eire Apparent, dies in London, UK. It is said that his "strong alcohol dependence" contributed to his demise.
Ain't Nothing 'Bout You by Brooks And Dunn begins a six-week stay at No1 on the Billboard country singles chart in the USA.
Alicia Keys releases her debut album, Songs in A Minor, in the USA. In its first week, it sells over 235,000 copies.
Blues giant John Lee Hooker dies in his sleep, at home in the Bay Area of San Francisco, California, USA.
Folk singer Jah Wobble, All About Eve, Mary Coughlan and Country Joe McDonald plays at the Trowbridge Village Pump Festival.Country Joe McDonald is advised that Babette Ory, daughter of Dixieland jazz legend Kid Ory, intends to take legal action against him. She claims that his song I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die was plagiarized from her father's composition Muskrat Ramble.
It is reported that Madonna has visited the £9m Ashcombe House on Cranbourne Chase in Wiltshire, UK, several times, with a view
to buying it.
Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts, a band fronted by actor Russell Crowe, play at The House Of Blues, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Jim Carroll plays at The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Staind album Break The Cycle is released in the UK and immediately goes to No1 in the album chart.
Beatlejazz, a group specialising in jazz interpretations of The Beatles songs, release their second album, Another Bite Of The Apple.
Roger McGuinn releases a new LP, Treasures From The Folk Den, on Appleseed Records in the USA.Jazz saxophonist Jay Migliori, who worked with Frank Zappa, Frank Sinatra and many others, dies aged 70 in Mission Viejo, California, USA.
System Of A Down release their new album, Toxicity in the USA on American records. It will debut at No1 in both the US and Canadian charts.
A series of four co-ordinated suicide attacks on the USA, usually referred to as The 9/11 Attacks, take place in New York City and Washington, D.C. Terrorists from the Islamist militant group Al-Qaeda hijack four passenger jets and deliberately crash two of them, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Another plane, American Airlines Flight 77, is crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth jet, United Airlines Flight 93, crashes into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania after passengers attempt to take control before it can reach its intended target in Washington, D.C. Nearly 3,000 people die in the attacks. Several songs will be written about the attacks including The Rising by Bruce Springsteen, Let's Roll by Neil Youn, Wall Street by Van Dyke Parks and This Ain't No Rag, It's A Flag by Charlie Daniels. The track 9-11-01 by Soulfly consists of one minute of silence. Several songs on Trouble Is Real, the debut LP by Johnathan Rice, are about the attacks, including City On Fire, Put Me In Your Holy War, and Salvation Day.
Madonna comes to the end of her Drowned World Tour with a show at The Staples Center, Los Angeles, California, USA. This show was originally scheduled for September 11, but was postponed because of the World Trade Center terrorist attack.
On their Hybrid Theory European Tour, Linkin Park play at Manchester Apollo, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.
US President George W. Bush delivers his War On Terror speech to a joint session of Congress in Washington DC, USA. Numerous songs will be inspired by the War On Terror, notably My Name Is Liar (2016) by Norwegian band Highasakite.
Jazz guitarist John Collins dies aged 88, in Los Angeles, California, USA. As well as leading his own Quartet, Collins also played with Nat King Cole, Bobby Troup, Sammy Davis Jr, Frank Sinatra and Nancy Wilson.
When Bob Dylan turns up to play at Jackson County Fairgrounds, Central Point, Oregon, USA, he is refused entry by security guards because he does not have a backstage pass.The Pledge of Allegiance Tour, featuring Slipknot, Rammstein and System Of A Down plays at The Allstate Arena, Rosemont, Illinois, USA.
The Concert For New York City is held in Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA. Paul McCartney helms the all-star event to raise money for the victims of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, featuring Bon Jovi, Destiny's Child, Janet Jackson, Elton John, Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, The Who, Bono and The Edge [of U2].
Michael Jackson, Carole King, P. Diddy, O-Town, 'N Sync, Backstreet Boys, Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, Rod Stewart, Destiny's Child, Pink, Goo Goo Dolls, Train, Bette Midler and America play in the fund-raising United We Stand concert at RFK Stadium, Washington DC. The event is one of many raising funds for victims of the World Trade Center atrocity.
R.E.M. play a surprise show at the Crocodile Cafe, Seattle, Washington, USA, co-owned by guitarist Peter Buck and his wife. The 'secret' gig is a benefit for the Washington Wilderness Coalition starring The Minus 5, which features Buck and longtime R.E.M. sideman Scott McCaughey. Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder joins R.E.M. for several songs.
The Dave Matthews Band cancels an international tour because of the recent attacks on the World Trade Center.
At the Q Awards in London, Liam Gallagher of Oasis and Damon Albarn of Blur are reconciled after a feud that has lasted six years. Kate Bush wins the Classic Songwriter Award. Travis collect the best album award for The Invisible Band.
Sting records an hour-long UK tv special for Top Of The Pops at the BBC Television Centre in London, UK, to an audience drawn from his fan club.
Sting records an hour-long UK tv special for Top Of The Pops at the BBC Television Centre in London, UK, to an audience drawn from his fan club.
LSD guru and icon of the hippy generation, Ken Kesey, dies in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, USA, as a result of complications following liver surgery. Closely associated with The Grateful Dead, Kesey lived for many years in La Honda, in the mountains south of San Francisco.
Toni Braxton, at the age of 34, gives birth to her first child, a son Denim Cole Braxton-Lewis.
Britney Spears plays at The Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA, supported by O-Town.
Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction spends the fourth of eight days in the Sudan, North West Africa, as part of a mission, organised by he humanitarian group Christian Solidarity International, to free Southern Sudanese slaves from their Northern masters.
Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction spends the seventh of eight days in the Sudan, North West Africa, as part of a mission, organised by he humanitarian group Christian Solidarity International, to free Southern Sudanese slaves from their Northern masters.
Singer songwriter Clifford T. Ward dies aged 57, from pneumonia, in Tetbury Wells, Worcestershire, England, UK.
It is reported that former Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider has signed a deal with VH1 to play himself in an upcoming docudrama about the 1985 Parents Music Resource Center [PMRC] hearings. Filming is to begin in February in Texas, USA, and a summer 2002 air date is expected.
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