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Singer Maud Beall Price, "bizarre vocalists" Les Trois Dumonds and Piccolo's Royal Lilliputians are among the entertainments on offer at Chase's Polite Vaudeville Theatre, Washington DC, USA.
Haley's Grand Concert Band is playing at Cabin John Bridge Resort, Washington DC, USA. Also on the bill in the resort's new amphitheatre are 'the latest vaudeville attractions'.
2,000 Shriners attend the grand opening of the first Pittsburgh Syria Temple on Webster Avenue and Washington Place, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. It is a four story building housing a large ballroom, and will become a successful venue for musical performances until 1991 under the name Syria Mosque. 
The "Exclusively Polite Vaudeville" show at Chase's Theatre, Washington DC, USA, features Fanny Rice in her "New Jolly Surprises", plus Franco Piper, Charles Ernest, Hayes And Healy, Mlle. Ballerini, Hines And Remington and Delareen's Animal Acrobats.
Haley's Concert Band is playing every day this week on Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, USA.Vaudeville singer George Washington Johnson, widely considered to have been the first African-American recording star, dies of pneumonia and myocarditis, aged 67, in New York City, USA.
Little Miss U.S.A., billed as "A merry and pretentious musical comedy" opens at The New Pantages Theatre, Seattle, Washington, USA. Also on the same bill is Lady Betty - The Celebrated Monkey.The 'riotous farce with music', My Aunt From Utah, plays the third of four nights at Poli's Theatre, Washington DC, USA.
The play Green
Grow The Lilacs, which features several folk songs performed by
future singing cowboy Tex Ritter, plays the last of six days at The National Theatre, Washington DC, USA. The play will subsequently provide the plot for the Rodgers
and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma.
Billie Holiday and the Count Basie Orchestra play the last night of a week at the Howard Theatre, Washington, DC, USA.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play at Roseland State Ballroom, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play at The Grand Ball of The Elks Convention in the Municipal Auditorium, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play in the Panther Room at the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The show is broadcast live on radio.
Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility, Washington, USA, and will subsequently be used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, Asia. Songs inspired by the creation of plutonium include The Plutonium Song by Malvina Reynolds, Uh-oh Plutonium by Anne Waldman and Plutonium by Alice Chambers.
Hot Lips Page plays the first night of a week at The Howard Theatre, Washington DC, USA.
The MGM musical comedy film Royal Wedding, starring Fred Astaire and Jane Powell, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, is released to cinemas in Mexico, Central America.Jazz saxophonist Jimmy Forrest and jump blues vocalist Roy Brown play the fourth night in a week of shows at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.
Bill Haley And His Comets appear live on the tv show Ray Bolger's Washington Square Show in the USA.
Dave 'Baby' Cortez, Bo Diddley, The Heartbeats, The Fiestas, The Cadillacs and Bobby Day play the fifth night in a week of shows at The Howard Theater, Washington, DC, USA.
The Ike And Tina Turner Revue plays the first night of a week at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA, supported by The Olympics and Big Maybelle.Dee Clark, The Shirelles, The Miracles, Gladys Knight And The Pips, Chuck Jackson, Shep And The Limelites and Baby Washington play the sixth night in a week of shows at The Regal, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Duke Ellington Orchestra, with Lambert, Hendricks And Bavan, plays at Basin Street East, New York City, USA.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play the fourth night of a one-week engagement at The Pavilion Of The Stars, Harvey's Resort Hotel And Casino, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA.
Bobby 'Blue' Bland And His Band play at The Evergreen Ballroom, Shelton, Washington, USA.
Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Earl Hines, Carmen McRae and Stan Getz play on the second night of the three-day long Pittsburgh Jazz Festival, Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Duke Ellington plays at a private performance in the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA.Glen Campbell and Barry McGuire play at Seattle Center Arena, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Tim Buckley and Mary McCaslin play the fourth of thirteen nights at Doug Weston's Troubadour, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.Tim Buckley and Mary McCaslin play the tenth of thirteen nights at Doug Weston's Troubadour, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.On the day of the burial of recently-assassinated US Senator Bobby Kennedy, Duke Ellington, The Bill Evans Trio, The Woody Herman Orchestra, Johnny Hodges, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Felicia Saunders, The Horace Silver Quintet and Joe Williams, record a tribute concert for WCBS-tv, New York City, USA.
Duke Ellington plays with and conducts the Hollywood Bowl Pops Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, California, USA.Blodwyn Pig play the last of five nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by Tim Rose.
Jazz saxophonist Grover Washington Jr enters the Billboard US Top 40 Albums Chart with Mister Magic which will peak at No10 during a seventeen-week run.
The Rolling Stones play the first of two nights at The Capitol Center, Largo, Washington DC, USA, supported by the Mighty Clouds Of Joy.
United States President Jimmy Carter presents Minnie Riperton with the American Cancer Society's Courage Award, for her outstanding achievements in promoting awareness of how women can face up to life after breast cancer. 
When country music legend Roy Acuff holds his 81st birthday party at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, the guests include President of the USA Ronald Reagan.
For the second time in a week, Bob Dylan makes a guest appearance at a Grateful Dead concert, this time in RFK Stadium, Washington D.C., USA.
On her Most Wanted tour, Hilary Duff plays at D.C. Armory, Washington DC, USA. A minor ripple of shock is caused when Bret Scallions of support band Fuel, declares "Welcome to the greatest f***ing country in the world," but follows the remark with a quick apology of "excuse my language."
Shoe manufacturers Nike apologise to to Washington, D.C.-based hardcore rock act Minor Threat for misappropriating the band's logo and other imagery in its own advertising poster for a skateboarding tour.
The United States House of Representatives passes a resolution introduced by Arkansas Representative Vic Snyder honouring Louis Jordan on the centenary of his birth.
Speaking at a Senate hearing in Washington DC, USA, Sir Elton John states that AIDS could be eradicated in his lifetime, but only if the US government continues funding the fight against the virus.Alicia Keys and Janelle Monae are among the artists performing at the Women's March on Washington, in Washington DC, USA. Also in attandance are Katy Perry and Madonna. Dozens of other 'sister-marches' take place across the world in protest at the election of Donald Trump as President Of The USA.
Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie play at Chateau Sainte Michelle, Woodinville, Washington, USA.
On his No More Tours II tour, Ozzy Osbourne plays at The Moda Center, Portland, Oregon, USA, supported by Megadeth.1902 |
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