September 25th Music News You Can Use

Ho Ho Ho! Only 3 months til Christmas!

Uncle Tom Moffatt gabs about this week in 1965, when The Animals made their Hawai'i debut. Tickets were a heady $2.

http://www.midweek.com/katrina-bowden-boz-scaggs-and-more-celebrity-news/

Ancient tradition meets future shock

http://www.jazz24.org/2013/09/in-new-afro-cuban-music-ancient-tradition-meets-future-shock/

Is Jazz good for babies?

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/sep/25/jazz-for-babies-michael-janisch

A rebirth for the Blast Furnace Blues Festival

http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2013/9/24/artsquest_to_revive_blast_furnace_blues.htm

Yet another entry into the never-ending story of rare guitar woods

http://www.opb.org/news/article/npr-critic-guitar-makers-slow-to-respond-to-thefts-of-rare-wood/

An Ookelele Workshop comes to this year's Dunedin Music Fest

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/north/tune-up-for-the-darebin-music-feast-ukulele-workshop/story-fnglenug-1226726019615

Today's hot music picks in NOLA-Land

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2013/09/new_orleans_music_hot_picks_fo_155.html

Being a Jazz singer can be risky business...

http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/music/225137882_Being_a_jazz_singer_may_be_risky_business__but_rewarding.html

The best Blues nicknames

http://www.legacy.com/ns/news-story.aspx?t=the-best-blues-nicknames&id=1509

And R.I.P. to jazz singer Gia Prima, who was Louis' widow.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/pensacolanewsjournal/obituary.aspx?n=gia-prima&pid=167123425#fbLoggedOut