Pearl Harbor Day Music News You Can Use

A musical Christmas Grinch in Hawai'i

http://www.hawaiireporter.com/christmas-grinch-atheist-gets-doe-to-halt-winter-charity-concert-just-hours-before-the-show/123

While another annual Hawaiian concert goes on as usual

http://www.marforpac.marines.mil/News/NewsArticleDisplay/tabid/919/Article/135228/hawaii-musicians-make-time-for-giving.aspx

Congrats to Nice Guy Hugh Masekela for his Grammy nomination

http://www.bdlive.co.za/world/americas/2012/12/06/jazz-icon-hugh-masekela-nominated-for-a-grammy

Ali Farke Toure's music is banned in Mali

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20624236

Previewing next year's Mardi Gras in N'Orleans

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/gary-sinise-trombone-shorty-harry-connick-jr-headline-orpheus-parade-perform-at-ball/2012/12/06/618166a6-3fce-11e2-8a5c-473797be602c_story.html

R.I.P. to British composer Jonathan Harvey

http://www.wboc.com/story/20275451/british-composer-jonathan-harvey-dies-at-73

A new guitar company in Boston

http://www.mediabistro.com/agencyspy/boston-art-director-kickstarts-custom-guitar-company_b41922

Guitar Hero 7 revealed

http://www.oxm.co.uk/48247/guitar-hero-7-revealed-vicarious-visions-disaster-used-six-string-guitar/

Mixing Jazz with traditional Arabic music

http://blogs.voanews.com/music/2012/12/07/two-rivers-mixing-jazz-with-traditional-arabic-music/

And R.I.P. to Ed Cassidy, a founding member of the legendary California band SPIRIT

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/spirit-drummer-ed-cassidy-dead-at-89/