Faith Hill will sing for soldiers stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina on Thursday morning. The performance will air on ABC's Good Morning America . . . Ashanti, Fat Joe, B2K, Jadakiss, Baby and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony will perform at a benefit for boxer Evander Holyfield's Main Event children's charity in Atlanta on February 15th . . . Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains will perform at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which runs April 25th through March 4th. The band features bassist Les Claypool, Guns n' Roses guitarist Buckethead and drummer Brian "Brain" Mantia and P-Funk keyboardist Bernie Worrell. Ween, Jack Johnson and Galactic are among other Jazz Fest performers . . .

Songs by Neil Young, Otis Redding, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard and others will be profiled in Heartaches by the Number: Country Music's 500 Greatest Singles, a new book due March 14th . . . Yoko Ono will perform with DJ Danny Tenaglia at Arc in New York on February 16th to celebrate the release of her upcoming record, Walking on Thin Ice (The Remixes), due March 25th . . . Slum Village will launch the thirty-nine-date Family Tree Tour with Pharoahe Monch, Dwele, Phat Kat and Ess Band on March 20th in Kalamazoo, Michigan . . . Deep Purple's Roger Glover will release Snapshot, his first solo album in nineteen years this week . . .

(February 10, 2003)