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An Exhibition entitled Banjo Man - The Musical Journey Of Earl Scruggs, opens at The Country Music Hall Of Fame And Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, where it will run for four months.
Country music singer-songwriter, bronze sculptor and rodeo champion Chris LeDoux dies aged 56 in Casper, Wyoming, USA, after undergoing radiation treatment for liver cancer.
Ashlee Simpson plays at The Tower Theater, Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, USA.Big Head Todd And The Monsters play at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA.
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Garbage release their fourth studio LP, Bleed Like Me, on Warner Brothers in Australia and New Zealand.
Spoon play at Gebäude 9, Cologne, Germany, Europe.
Anything But Mine by Kenny Chesney reaches No1 in the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in the USA, a position it will hold for two weeks.
On their Hot Fuss tour, 
John Martyn plays at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by Ian McNabb.
Cult Of Luna, Breather Resist and Gargantula play at The Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Foo Fighters release a new album, In Your Honor on RCA Records in the USA. During the day they play a live set on Fuse Music Channel's 7th Avenue Drop show in New York City.
The Beautiful South play at Delamere Forest, Delamere, Cheshire, UK.
It is announced that Jessie Banks, vocalist with Brighton, England, UK, band Chungking, has agreed to sing with Norwegian electro-ambient band Royksopp during their festival dates throughout this summer.
The Spencer Davis Group plays at The Twin Towns Services Club, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania.
Doves play at The Forum Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 
British blues and pop vocalist Long John Baldry dies from a chest infection in Vancouver, Canada, aged 64.
Myron Floren dies of cancer at his home in Rolling Hills Estates, near Los Angeles, California, USA. He is best-remembered as the accordionist on The Lawrence Welk Show between 1950 and 1982.
The first day of the three-day long Fuji Rock Festival is held in Japan, Asia. Headliners for the event include Beck, The Bravery, Dinosaur Jr., Fatboy Slim, Foo Fighters, The Go! Team, Juliette And the Licks, Kaiser Chiefs, the Music and Sigur Ros.
Mike Peters of The Alarm stages the British component of his third Alarmstock event in Abbey Road studio 2, London, England, UK.
Formerly known as Puff Daddy, P.Diddy and Sean Combs, the well known rapper announces on a tv chat show in the USA that he will henceforth be known simply as Diddy.
The Fight play at Joiners, Southampton, England, UK.
The four-day-long guitar-orientated Wall To Wall Festival begins in the Krannert Centre, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA. Artists performing today include Taj Mahal, Mamadou Diabate, Jesse Harris and Rory Block.
Music business provocateur Bill Drummond announces and actively
promotes the first annual No Music Day. The
concept is that No Music Day should be a yearly observance of not
playing or listening to music for 24 hours as a counterpoint to the constant barrage of music normally pervading all aspects of human
life.
Bob Dylan plays the third of five sold out nights at Brixton Academy, London, UK.
Paul McCartney completes his US Tour with the second of two nights at The Staples Centre, Los Angeles, California, USA.Mar |