Thursday Music Digest

Another sighting of the Royal Hawaiian Band:

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080813/GETPUBLISHED/808130357/-1/SPORTSFRONT

Also in Hawaii, Sammy Hagar opens a beach bar and grill on Maui

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/hmshost-sammy-hagar-open-sammys/story.aspx?guid=%7B87EA3502-5016-4EE6-B81D-158508B511E2%7D&dist=hppr

Preservation Hall Jazz Band plays the Tabernacle:

http://www.mvtimes.com/2008/08/14/calendar/music-preservation-hall.php

Back in Kailua, a rare sighting of the wife of The Man Who Shot Lennon. Chapman actually worked at Castle Hospital 2 blocks from where we lived on Ulupalakua Street, and earlier this week was denied parole (again).

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/08/13/2008-08-13_first_look_at_wife_of_john_lennon_slayer.html

And the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will open a New York Branch.

http://www.nysun.com/new-york/rock-music-museum-announces-ny-branch/83858/