Good, Good Morning to Everyone,
It's Wednesday morning and the sun is shining bright. It finally feels like summer, hot and Ontario humid. Whew! It's recital week here in wee Fergus. We've pitched our huge tent and all the kids we teach to play all year are going to play for a small audience. It's always sooooo much fun and oh how we love to watch the kids play. Now that summers here, it must be time to throw some new strings on those instruments of yours. Guitars, basses, mandolins, violins, uke's, we've got strings for all of them and by the world's best manufacturers like DR, Elixir, Ernie Ball, Hannabach, John Pearse, Savarez, SIT and Thomastik-Infeld just to name a few. We're all Canadian, we ship fast via Canada Post and you just can't beat our prices. Make www.globalstrings.com your instrument string supplier. You'll be very happy you did. Hope you enjoy your day and All the Best.
Today in Music History
1956 - "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvous peaks at #8
1967 - John Entwistle of rock group The Who weds Alison Wise
1970 - Rocker Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession
1975 - Rocker Alice Cooper falls off stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs
1979 - Rock group, the Knack releases "My Sharona"
1991 - "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Babalu Music"
2004 - Bob Dylan accepts honorary doctor of music degree from the University of St Andrews, Scotland's oldest university
Births in Music
1910 - Milt Hinton, American jazz bassist (d. 2000)
1937 - Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets)
1948 - Myles Goodwyn, Montreal, rock guitarist/vocalist (April Wine)
1970 - Martin Deschamps, Quebec rock singer
1975 - KT Tunstall, Scottish singer, songwriter and musician
1977 - Jason Mraz, American singer and songwriter
1984 - Duffy, Welsh Singer
1540 - Johann Baptista Serranus, composer
1749 - Konrad Back, composer
1824 - Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke, German musician and composer
1837 - Ernest Guiraud, composer
1852 - Stephane Raoul Pugno, composer
1855 - Maude Valerie White, composer
1877 - Hermann Stephani, composer
1877 - Blair Fairchild, composer
1892 - Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/US pianist
1899 - Alexander Moiseyevich Veprik, composer
1920 - Paul Des Marais, composer
1922 - Francis Thorne, Bay Shore NY, composer (Burlesque Overture)
1925 - Amada Galvez Santos Ocampo, composer
1926 - Lars Johan Werle, composer
1929 - June Carter Cash, Maces Spring, Va, country singer (Johnny Cash Show)
1929 - Henri Pousseur, Malm‚dy Belgium, composer (Homo Habitis)
1940 - Adam Faith, England, singer and actor (Poor Me, What Do You Want?)
1940 - Diana Trask, Australia, singer (Sing Along With Mitch)
1940 - Stuart Sutcliffe, Edinburgh, Scotland, musician/artist (Beatles)
1941 - Robert Hunter, American lyricist and poet (The Grateful Dead)
1943 - James Levine, musical conductor (Tosca)/dir (Metropolitan Opera)
1944 - Rosetta Hightower, US singer (Don't Hang Up)
1945 - Paul Goddard, Georgia, rock bassist (Atlanta Rhythm Section)
1948 - Nigel Osborne, composer
1955 - Glenn Danzig, American musician (The Misfits and Danzig)
1956 - Randy Jackson, American bassist and music producer
1960 - Donald Harrison, American musician
1960 - Tatsuya Uemura, Japanese musician and programmer
1961 - Mark Drillich, Dutch pop bassist (Kong-Slauerhoff)
1962 - Richard Coles, rock keyboardist (Communards)
1962 - Chuck Billy, American singer (Testament)
1963 - Steve Shelley, American musician (Crucifucks and Sonic Youth)
1964 - Joey Allen, Ft Wayne Indiana, rock guitarist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1965 - Paul Arthurs, British guitarist (Oasis)
1966 - Chico DeBarge, American musician (DeBarge)
1966 - Richie Ren, Taiwanese musician
1970 - Yann Tiersen, French musician
1973 - Marie N, Latvian singer
1976 - Joe Becker, American musician
1978 - Memphis Bleek, American rapper
1978 - Frédéric Leclercq, French bassist (DragonForce)
1988 - Isabella Leong Lok-Sze, Hong Kong singer, actress and model
Deaths in Music
1771 - Jean-Claude Trial, composer, dies at 38
1801 - Bendix Friedrich Zinck, composer, dies at 58
1817 - Otto Carl Erdmann Kospoth, composer, dies at 63
1833 - Nikolaus Paul Zmeskall, composer, dies at 73
1888 - Emil Naumann, composer, dies at 60
1891 - Francis Henry Brown, composer, dies at 73
1895 - Joseph Paul Skelly, composer, dies at 44
1901 - Charles Kensington Salaman, composer, dies at 87
1924 - Cecil [James] Sharp, English folk musician, dies at 64
1928 - Thomas H Rollinson, composer, dies at 84
1951 - Armin Knab, German composer (Wunderhorn), dies at 70
1956 - Reinhold Moritsevich Glier, Russian composer, dies at 81
1958 - Edvard Armas Jarnefeldt, composer, dies at 88
1959 - Jean Gallon, composer, dies at 80
1959 - Boris Vian, French writer and musician (b. 1920)
1971 - Walter Schulthess, composer, dies at 76
1972 - Elton Britt, country singer (Sat Night Jamboree), dies at 54
1981 - Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1907)
1991 - Bill Buysman, Dutch guitarist/singer (Kilima Hawaiians)
Today in the News
- Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai seeks refuge in Dutch Embassy
- The 2008 Wimbledon Championships begins in London.
- An additional 28 survivors from the MV Princess of the Stars are found but there are still more than 800 missing from the vessel that sunk during Typhoon Fengshen. (Reuters)
- Tarija Department becomes the fourth Bolivian department to vote for greater autonomy from the government of the President of Bolivia Evo Morales. (AFP via Google News)
- A female suicide bomber kills at least 16 people and injures another 40 in Baquba, Iraq. (CNN)
- Saudi Arabia offers to increase its oil production slightly at an oil summit in Jeddah. (The New York Times)
- 2008 Pacific typhoon season: The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Fengshen rises to at least 155 according to Red Cross estimates with 59 people dead and 40 people missing in Iloilo province alone. (AP via Google News) (AP via Google News)
- A large bus collides head-on with a smaller minibus in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, leaving nine dead. (The International Herald Tribune)
News from this day in History
1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for Type-Writer.
1887 - The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
1888 - Frederick Douglass is the first African-American nominated for US president.
1958 - The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
1980 - 1st solar-powered coast-to-coast two-way radio conversation
Holidays and Observances
- Jāņi (Līgo) - Latvia
- Midsummer's Eve, Christianized as the eve of the feast of Saint John the Baptist, is celebrated in much of Northern Europe
- Victory Day - Estonia
- Father's Day - Poland, Nicaragua and Uganda
- Grand Duke's Official Birthday - Luxembourg
- Saint Etheldreda
- Saint Jonas Day - especially celebrated in Lithuania
- Saint Lietbert of Brakel (d. 1076)
- Blessed Mary of Oignies (d. 1213)
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