Thursday Music Digest

Laurel and Hardy's silent films set to music?

http://www.mercurynews.com/music/ci_10906779

Promoting "classic jazz" in the public schools in Arizona:

http://www.azcentral.com/community/chandler/articles/2008/11/05/20081105cr-jazz1105.html

More on the giant uke fest in New Zealand:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/4751159a6016.html

A preview from our friends at Hawai'i Magazine of the impending hula conference in Honolulu-

http://www.hawaiimagazine.com/blogs/hawaii_today/2008/11/5/Waikiki_hula_conference

And a preview of the Telarc debut by blues shouter Shemeika Copeland, whom we saw a few years back at the Lowell Fest:

http://top40-charts.com/news/RnB/Shemekia-Copeland-Takes-Her-Music-To-A-New-Place-On-Telarc-Debut/44031.html