Last Day of Spring Music News You Can Use

R.I.P. to Slim Whitman, the butt of a thousand and one musical jokes

http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2013/06/for_slim_whitman_the_classic_s.html

Meet the gTar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdyM9FpT8uU

Latest news from the Wellington Ookelele Orchestra

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1306/S00279/wellington-ukulele-orchestra-edinburgh-fringe-fundraiser.htm

The Edmonton Jazz Fest is ready to ride

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/music/Festival+preview+Edmonton+Jazz+Fest+swing/8548799/story.html

Music doings for Thursday in NOLA

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2013/06/new_orleans_music_hot_picks_fo_58.html

Grits Ain't Groceries

http://cedarrepublican.com/news/grits-ain-t-groceries-benefit-blues-weekend-at-hulston-mill/article_9435ea72-d925-11e2-a4d6-0019bb2963f4.html

Los Lobos head to the Motor City

http://www.laprensatoledo.com/Stories/2013/062113/concert.htm

Herbie Hancock on technology and music

http://www.mercurynews.com/music/ci_23478389/herbie-hancock-technology-and-music

A long-lost Tony Bennett/Dave Brubeck recording surfaces

http://www.mercurynews.com/music/ci_23493002/long-lost-tony-bennett-dave-brubeck-recording-discovered

And an update on the major makeover of Governors Island

http://pix11.com/2013/06/18/governors-island-getting-a-makeover/#axzz2WlT06JSA