Midweek Music Digest

Checking the weekly Coconut Wireless with Uncle Tom

http://www.midweek.com/content/columns/utg/

Element Lacquer Series Drums!

http://illinoisentertainer.com/2009/05/gear-may-2009/comment-page-1/

"Chasin' Dem Blues"

http://articles.philly.com/2011-04-19/news/29447397_1_blues-revue-blues-bends-paramount-records

New Orleans is ready for the new season of "Treme"

http://www.louisianaweekly.com/233/

Premier Guitar keeps growing

http://www.prlog.org/11446195-premier-guitar-continues-to-expand-adding-two-key-staffers.html

Aftermaths of the Tsunami in the Hawaiian arts community

http://www.staradvertiser.com/features/featuresstories/20110419__Tsunami_reverberates__in_isle_arts_communities.html

Ride With Bob this summer!

http://www.galveston.com/041811a/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+performingarts+%28GALVESTON.COM%3A+Galveston+Performing+Arts+Headlines%29

Checking out a steel guitar festival in Hawai'i

http://mauinow.com/2011/04/18/third-annual-henry-kaleialoha-allen-hawaiian-steel-guitar-festival/

A first look at this year's Monterey Jazz

http://losangeles.broadwayworld.com/article/54th-Annual-Monterey-Jazz-Festival-Set-for-91618-20110419

And R.I.P. to Big Band leader Orrin Tucker

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/orrin-tucker-big-band-leader-dies-at-100/2011/04/19/AFHKu47D_story.html