Good Morning
It's another gorgeous day here in Fergus. Wow, you should have seen the press that was in town. Guess it had to do with the Tori Stafford case. It's very sad and we wish all the best for the family and sincerely hope they can find peace. It's a really tough situation. We'll be praying hard for them all.
On another note, we just want to remind you that we're here with all the instrument strings you need. DR, Elixir, Hannabach, Savarez, S.I.T., Thomastik-Infeld and of course a lot more brand names you love and use. Keep the faith, love and healing happening and All the Best.
Today in Music History
1892 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera "Pagliacci," premieres in Milan
1921 - Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co.
1941 - Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
1968 - Paul McCartney and Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert
1979 - Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in USSR
1983 - David Bowie's "Let's "Dance," single goes #1
Births in Music
1904 - Fats Waller, [Thomas Wright], jazz singer/composer (Ain't Misbehavin')
1976 - Kardinal Offishall, Canadian rapper
1978 - Adam Gontier, Canadian singer Three Days Grace
1633 - Joseph de La Barre, composer
1671 - Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer
1680 - Frederich Karl Erbach, composer
1720 - Antonio Corbisiero, composer
1722 - Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer
1841 - Joseph Parry, composer
1867 - Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer
1880 - Pablo Luna y Carne, composer
1888 - May Aufderheide, composer
1890 - Albert van Raalte, conductor (AVRO-orchestra)
1898 - Charles H ba, Czech violinist/composer
1898 - Karel Haba, composer
1901 - Horace Heidt, Alameda, Calif, orch leader (Swift Show Wagon)
1905 - Edward Lockspeiser, composer
1913 - Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (d. 1976)
1917 - Dennis Day, Irish tenor/comedian (Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy)
1924 - Robert Parris, Philadelphia, composer (Book of Imaginery Beings)
1926 - Joseph Horovitz, composer
1929 - Charles Wadsworth, Barnesville Georgia, pianist (Lincoln Center)
1932 - Robert Sherlaw Johnson, composer
1933 - Maurice André, French trumpeter
1935 - Terry Lightfoot, clarinetist/bandleader (New Orleans Jazzmen)
1939 - Heinz Holliger, Swiss composer
1941 - Martin Carthy, English musician
1941 - Ronald Isley, Cincinnati, Ohio, singer (Isley Brothers)
1943 - Hilton Valentine, English guitarist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1944 - Marcie Blane, American singer
1947 - Bill Champlin, Oakland, Ca, American singer
1948 - Leo Sayer, [Gerard], England, singer (When I Need Love)
1949 - Arno Hintjens, Belgian singer (T C Matic)
1949 - Rosalind Plowright, British soprano (Aida, Senta)
1950 - Roger Hodgson, London, rocker (Supertramp)
1954 - Marc Ribot, American musician
1955 - John Glavin, rock keyboardist (Molly Hatchet)
1955 - Stan Lynch, Gainesville, Fl, rock drummer (Tommy Petty and Heartbreakers)
1956 - Joanna M C "Annemarie" Henselmans, singer/cabaretiŠre (School Desk)
1958 - Mike Barson, rock keyboardist (Madness)
1963 - Kevin Shields, Musician (My Bloody Valentine)
1972 - Adriano Cintra, Brazilian musician (CSS)
1972 - The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (d. 1997)
1974 - Havoc, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
1975 - Lee Gaze, Welsh guitarist
1976 - Deron Miller, American rock musician
1981 - Max, German singer
1985 - Kano, British rapper
1985 - Mutya Buena, English singer (ex-Sugababes)
1985 - Marco Carta, Italian singer
1986 - Myra, Mexican-American singer
1992 - Olivia Olson, American singer and actress
Deaths in Music
1812 - Joseph Wolfl, composer, dies at 38
1815 - Roman Hoffstetter, composer, dies at 73
1817 - Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer, dies at 64
1844 - Guiseppi Baini, Italian composer, dies at 68
1860 - Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer, dies at 53
1885 - Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer, dies at 73
1895 - Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76
1897 - Karol Mikuli, composer, dies at 77
1926 - Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer, dies at 65
1954 - Janos Hammerschlag, composer, dies at 68
1957 - Aleksandr Vertinsky, Russian singer (b. 1889)
1973 - Vaughn Monroe, singer/orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61
1976 - Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer, dies at 77
1983 - Finn Einar Mortensen, composer, dies at 61
1993 - John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80
1996 - Peter Fletcher, music teacher, dies at 60
1996 - Paul Delph, American musician and producer (b. 1957)
1999 - Karnail "Bugz" Pitts, American rapper (D12) (b. 1979)
2006 - Billy Walker, American singer (b. 1929)
Today in the News
- Crude oil prices rise above $130 a barrel for the first time. (AP via Google News)
- Israel and Syria reveal indirect peace negotiations in Turkey in hopes of direct talks leading to a border agreement. (Reuters via The Washington Post)
- Georgian voters go to the polls for the Georgian legislative election, 2008. (Reuters via IHT)
- A 24-hour strike by employees of the National Railway Company of Belgium ends rail services in Belgium and to France, Germany and the Netherlands. (AFP)
- Ma Ying-jeou is sworn in as the President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) with Liu Chao-shiuan as his Premier. (BBC News)
- Manoel de Oliveira is awarded a palme d'or for his lifetime career achievement at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. (Festival website)
What happened on this Day in History
996 - Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1881 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.
1904 - The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1932 - Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and thereby becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1945 - Screen legend Humphrey Bogart marries actress Lauren Bacall.
1951 - The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition - a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively know as the New York School.
2004 - Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu's record from the previous year.
Holidays and Observances
- Saint Helena Day is celebrated on the Island of Saint Helena, to celebrate its discovery in 1502.
- Navy Day (Día de las Glorias Navales) in Chile.
- Dia de la Afrocolombianidad marks the abolition of slavery in Colombia.
- Independence Day is celebrated in Montenegro.
- Circassian Day of Mourning Memorial Day to mourn the losses in the Russian-Circassian War and the Circassian Genocide.
Roman Catholic :
- Saint Charles-Eugène de Mazenod
Eastern Orthodox:
- Saints Constantine and Helena, Equal-to-the-Apostles
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