Hello and Good Morning,
It's a beautiful but really hot day here in Southern Ontario. We're gonna put on the A/C and do some pickin' today. It's not worth going out. Better to stay in, call some friends and get some jammin' in. Way better way to raise the temp. Don't forget to check out our string catalogue (all the greats - DR, Elixir, Hannabach, John Pearse, Savarez, SIT, Thomastik and more) and order up your favourite strings for your guitars, basses, mandolins, violins, etc. We'll get them to you fast and inexpensive. We love to save you money. Until later, All the Best.
P.S. Stay tuned for some new string arrivals. Should be here any day now.
Today in Music History
1977 - The ashes of Ahn Eak-tai, a Korean conductor and the composer of the national anthem Aegukga, are transferred from the island of Majorca to the Korean National Cemetery.
1988 - Rockers Jonathan "Chico" and Robert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking
Births in Music
1924 - Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician (d. 2005)
1948 - Raffi, Canadian children's singer and musician (Baby Beluga)
1961 - Toby Keith, American singer and musician
1970 - Beck, American singer and musician
1574 - Giovanni Battista Stefanini, composer
1604 - Heinrich Albert, Germany, composer (Arien oder Melodien)
1637 - Johann Georg Ebeling, composer
1638 - Matteo Coferati, composer
1757 - Richard Wainwright, composer
1819 - Vatroslav Lisinski, composer
1857 - Rudolf Dellinger, composer
1871 - Clement Harris, composer
1882 - Percy Grainger, Melbourne, composer/pianist/conductor (Hill Songs)
1900 - George Antheil, Trenton NJ, composer (Airplane Sonata)
1904 - Bill Challis, arranger/pianist
1907 - Kishio Hirao, composer
1908 - Louis Jordan, American saxophonist (d. 1975)
1912 - Jacques Stehman, composer
1914 - Billy Eckstine, Pittsburgh PA, jazz singer (Tenderly, A Fool in Love)
1927 - Carlo Franci, composer
1931 - Jerry Vale, [Genaro Louis Vitaliano], NYC, singer (Arriverderci Roma)
1931 - Louis Ballard, composer
1935 - Steve Lawrence, American entertainer and singer
1942 - Chuck Negron, Bronx NY, rock vocalist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
1944 - Jaimoe "Johnny" Johanson, US rock drummer (Allman Brothers)
1951 - Pleas Ned Sublette, composer
1951 - Greg T Walker, rock bassist (Blackfoot)
1951 - Andy Fletcher, rocker (Depeche Mode-Just Can't Get Enough)
1956 - Russell Christian, rocker (Christians-Harvest the World)
1958 - Carlos Cavazo, rocker (Quiet Riot-We're Not Gonna Take It)
1958 - Fred Young, Glasgow Ky, singer (Kentucky Headhunters-Davy Crockett)
1961 - Graham Jones, rock guitarist (Haircut 100)
1961 - Andrew Fletcher, English musician (Depeche Mode)
1962 - Joan Osborne, American singer and songwriter
1967 - Jordan Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer
1969 - Sugizo, Japanese guitarist and singer
1974 - Zhanna Friske, Russian actress and singer
1975 - Elias Viljanen, Finnish Guitarist
1976 - David Kennedy, American guitarist (Angels & Airwaves)
1985 - Jamie Cook, British musician (Arctic Monkeys)
1992 - Benjamin Grosvenor, Pianist
1992 - Taylor Maine Pearl Brooks, daughter of country singer Garth Brooks
Deaths in Music
1681 - Georg Neumark, composer, dies at 60
1876 - Josef Dessauer, composer, dies at 78
1885 - Hendrick Waelput, composer, dies at 39
1885 - Henry Waelput, Flemish composer/conductor (Blessing of Arms)
1894 - Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov, composer
1905 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (b. 1834)
1941 - Philippe Gaubert, composer, dies at 62
1942 - Catherinus Elling, composer, dies at 83
1946 - Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer/conductor, dies at 63
1949 - Riccadro Pick-Mangiagalli, composer, dies at 66
1957 - Henry Fevrier, composer, dies at 81
1961 - Julian Bautista, composer, dies at 60
1971 - Charlie Shavers, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1920)
1994 - Dominic Lucero, dancer/singer, dies of lymphatic cancer
Today in the News
- Leaders of the G8 nations meeting in Japan agree to a target of cutting world greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2050. (BBC News)
- The former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra goes on trial facing corruption charges. (BBC News)
- The Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousaf Raza Gillani denies any involvement in the 2008 Indian embassy bombing in Kabul. The Government of Afghanistan has hinted that it believes that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence had some involvement. (AP via Yahoo! News), (Reuters)
News from this Day in History
939 - The Major Occultation, or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi.
1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
1579 - Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
1889 - The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.
1892 - St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
1932 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
1947 - Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crashed landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
Holidays and Observances
- Annual Soapy Smith wake, held each year in Skagway, Alaska in the Gold Rush Cemetery and in Hollywood, California at the Magic Castle
- Saints Abda and Sabas
- Saint Auspicius, bishop of Trier
- Saint Evodius, bishop of Rouen, confessor (Translation)
- Saint Grimbald, abbot, confessor
- Saint Kilian of Würzburg, bishop, and companions
- Saint Nummius, confessor St. Nom
- Saint Procopius, martyr
- Saint Quintinus, martyr (Invention)
- Saint Theobald (Thibaut), abbot
- Saint Barbara (Translation)
- Saint Elizabeth, queen of Portug
- Saint Sunniva and companions, virgins
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