September 2003 in Music History

Events in Music

Sep 7 Farm Aid 16 held in Columbus, Ohio; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris, Hootie & the Blowfish, Sheryl Crow, Brooks & Dunn, and Daniel Lanois [1]

Sep 13 British rock singer Mike Smith (Dave Clark Five) fractures spine falling while trying to enter his home after locking himself out, becomes permanently paralyzed from the waist down

Sep 15 ISO/Columbia Records releases David Bowie's 23rd studio album, "Reality"; he supports it with what becomes his final concert tour

Sep 17 Billy Corgan presents his poetry at the Art Institute of Chicago's Rubloff Auditorium

Sep 27 American actress Halle Berry announces her separation from second husband, R&B singer Eric Benet

Sep 2 Bruce Waibel, American touring and session rock bassist (Gregg Allman; Firehouse), takes his own life at 45
Sep 3 (Rebert) R. H. Harris, American gospel singer (The Soul Stirrers), dies at 84
Sep 4 Lola Bobesco, Romanian-born violinist (b. 1921)
Sep 4 Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and orchestra leader (Ripley's Game), dies at 82
Sep 5 Gisele MacKenzie [LaFlèche], Canadian singer and actress (Your Hit Parade), dies at 76
Sep 6 Harry Goz, American musical theatre actor and voice actor, dies at 71
Sep 7 Warren Zevon, American rock singer-songwriter and musician ("Werewolves of London"; "Lawyers, Guns and Money"; "Excitable Boy"), dies of pleural mesothelioma at 56

Sep 12 American country singer ("I Walk the Line"; "Ring of Fire"; "A Boy Named Sue"), dies at 71

Sep 14 John Serry, Sr., American classical, jazz, and bolero accordionist, arranger, composer, organist, and educator, dies at 88
Sep 15 Jack Brymer, British classical clarinetist (Royal Philharmonic; BBC Symphony; London Symphony), and teacher, dies at 88
Sep 16 Sheb Wooley, American vocalist (Purple People Eater, Hee Haw), dies at 82
Sep 17 Ljubica Marić, Serbian composer (Songs Of Space; Octoïcha), pianist, and pedagogue, dies at 94
Sep 19 Anatoly Bogatyrev, Belarusian composer, dies at 90
Sep 19 Slim Dusty [David Kirkpatrick], Australian country music singer-songwriter, dies of cancer at 76
Sep 21 Tom Glazer, American folk singer and songwriter (Because All Men Are Brothers; A Dollar Ain't A Dollar Anymore), dies at 88
Sep 24 Rosalie Allen, American country singer, yodeler, and disc jockey, dies of congestive heart failure at 79
Sep 26 Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter, Austrian organist and composer, dies at 67
Sep 26 Robert Palmer, English singer-songwriter ("Addicted To Love"; The Power Station), dies of a heart attack at 54
Sep 26 Shawn Lane, American session rock, jazz, and world fusion guitarist, dies of lung issues at 40
Sep 27 Donald O'Connor, American dancer and actor (Singin' in the Rain), dies at 78
Sep 27 Paul Burlison, American rockabilly musician (The Rock N Roll Trio), dies at 74
Sep 30 Ronnie Dawson, American rockabilly guitarist (Rockabilly Hall of Fame, 1998), dies of cancer at 64 [1]