Events in Music
- Jun 7 69th Tony Awards: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" (play) and "Fun Home" (musical) each win 5 awards
CMT Music Awards
Jun 10 49th CMT Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, and Luke Bryan win
Glastonbury Festival
Jun 24 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Kanye West, and The Who headline; other performers include Lionel Richie, Motörhead, Burt Bacharach, The Libertines, and Pharrell Williams
Music History
Jun 30 Misty Copeland becomes the 1st African American principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre
Weddings in Music
Deaths in Music
- Jun 1 Jean Ritchie, American folk singer, dies at 92
- Jun 2 Paul Karolyi, Hungarian composer, dies at 80
- Jun 4 Albert West [Albertus Westelaken], Dutch pop singer (The Shuffles - "Cha-La-La, I Need You"; Stars on 45), dies at 65
- Jun 6 Ronnie Gilbert, American folk singer (The Weavers - "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine"), dies at 88
- Jun 9 James Last, German-born composer and big band bandleader, dies at 86
- Jun 11 Jim Ed Brown, American country music singer (Nashville on the Road), dies at 81
Ornette Coleman (1930-2015)
Jun 11 American jazz saxophonist and composer (Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation), dies of a heart attack at 85
- Jun 11 Ron Moody [Moodnick], British stage and screen actor, singer (Oliver!; The Twelve Chairs), and composer dies at 91
- Jun 12 Ernest Tomlinson, English light classical composer, dies at 90
- Jun 12 Monica Lewis, American jazz singer and film actress (Box Office, Affair with a Stranger), dies at 93
- Jun 13 "Big Time" Sarah [Streeter], American blues singer, dies of heart disease at 62
- Jun 13 MC Supreme [Dewayne Lawrence Coleman], rapper (Black in America), dies in a car accident at 47
- Jun 15 Mighty Sam McClain, American soul and blues singer-songwriter, dies at 72
- Jun 15 Roger Lavern [Jackson], English rock keyboardist (Tornados), dies at 75
- Jun 21 Gunther Schuller, American horn player and jazz composer ("Of Reminiscences and Reflections" - Pulitzer Prize, 1994), dies at 89
- Jun 22 James Horner, American film composer (Titanic; Apollo 13; Avatar), dies in a plane crash at 61
- Jun 22 Joseph de Pasquale, American violist (Boston Symphony, 1949-64: Philadelphia Orchestra, 1964-96), and educator (Curtis Institutu, 1965-2015), dies at 95
- Jun 23 Magali Noël [Guiffray], French actress and singer, dies at 83
- Jun 27 Chris Squire, British progressive rock bassist, founding and longest serving member of Yes, 1969-2014 ("The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)"), dies of acute erythroid leukemia at 67
- Jun 27 Denis Vigay, British cellist (BBC Symphony; Academy of St Martin in the Fields; Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band), dies at 89
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