Briefly News and Comment: Hendrix and Beatles auctions
update: Unreleased Wings stuff on the Internet. Femi Kuti's tour dates. Missing Persons reunite.
British auction house Bonhams & Brooks will auction one of Jimi Hendrix 's guitars, a Vintage Epiphone, on Thursday (6/21), Reuters reported.
CNN.com reported on two Beatles-related auctions:
Paul McCartney and producer George Martin have autographed 500 copies of the original score for the song "Yesterday," and will be auctioning them on the Internet to raise money for the British colony Montserrat, in which a volcano erupted in 1997. (Montserrat is in the Carribean, southeast of Puerto Rico, and no, we'd never heard of it before either.)
Also, the man who had lived in John Lennon's childhood home for 30 years died last month, and the owner's son will auction the house on the Internet. He has not set a date.
WindowsMedia.com and PaulMcCartney.com will be posting "unreleased songs, film clips and interviews" from McCartney's days with Wings< CNet.com reported.
Afrobeat musician Femi Kuti will perform at New York's Irving Plaza on Friday (6/22) prior to the opening of the United Nations Special Session of HIV/AIDS.
AIDS is currently ravaging the Nigerian musician's continent, and his father, musician Fela Kuti , died of the disease in 1997.
MCA Records has released Kuti's North American tour itinerary:
June
20 - Boston, MA - Copley Square - Boston Globe Jazz Festival
22 - New York, NY - Irving Plaza
23 - New Haven, CT - Intl. Festival of Arts & Ideas
24 - Washington, DC - Wolf Trap Jazz & Blues Festival
27 - Cleveland Heights, OH - Cain Park
30 - Saratoga Springs, NY - Freihofer's Jazz Festival
July
2 - Montreal, Quebec - Montreal Jazz Festival
3 - Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix Concert Theatre
6 - Milwaukee, WI - Summerfest
9 - Council Bluffs, IA - Westfair Amphitheatre
11 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
13 - Detroit, MI - Concert of Colors
14 - Chicago, IL - Chicago Folk & Roots Festival
'80s new wave band Missing Persons ("Words," "Walking in L.A.") have reunited. After playing three California dates--San Diego's 4th & B (7/17), L.A.'s Roxy (7/18) and Anaheim's House of Blues (7/20)--the band will embark on a full-length tour, dates to be announced.
- Artist Links:
Madonna's "Confessions on a Dance Floor" tour
The Duke Spirit on stage and in the studio
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with Stevie Nicks
Metallica at the KROQ Weenie Roast in Irvine, CA
R.E.M. at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA
Herbie Hancock at the Sonoma Jazz Festival
Brad Paisley, Jack Ingram and Kellie Pickler
Dengue Fever at The Independent, San Francisco, CA

