The Little Prince is returning to Lheidli T’enneh Memorial Park today (Thursday). It’s been locked up since the wildfire crisis began because of fears around the possibility that sparks from the train could ignite the dry grass in park. The train will resume it’s Thursday through Monday noon to 8:00pm operating schedule this week.
Red had the call of the morning. Check this out.
Signs you live in a small town. Checkout the list from BuzzFeed. Ken called and added “It only takes 5 minutes to drive across town.”
And some music news;
Nikki Sixx is showing off his bandages after having a tear in his rotator cuff and bicep surgically repaired. Sixx has posted photos on Facebook, saying the doctor did a great job on Tuesday. Sixx claims he injured himself by breaking guitars. I don’t care if you’re a celebrity or not I don’t want to see your bandages! So we’re not showing them here.!!
Gregg Allman‘s final album will come out on September 8th. Producer Don Was says Allman did not have the lungpower on the “Southern Blood” album that he once had, but they felt the “raw, weathered performances were honest and compelling.” Allman died in May from complications from liver cancer. He chose the name “Southern Blood” because Allman and his daughter had commissioned artist Vincent Castiglia to do a portrait of Allman, and Castiglia used Allman’s actual blood in the paint. The vinyl version and the deluxe C-D will include a print of the portrait.
Tears For Fears are calling off the last four dates of their American tour due to a “family emergency.” They don’t go into specifics about the nature of the emergency. Tears For Fears missed their shows Tuesday in San Jose and last night in Santa Barbara, California. They called off their appearance this weekend in Los Angeles with Hall and Oates.
The “Anna Lee” mentioned in The Band song ``The Weight’‘ is leading the effort to get Levon Helm‘s childhood home preserved. Anna Lee Amsden, who grew up with Helm, is working with The Levon Helm Legacy Project to raise 150-thousand dollars to preserve a green-sided sharecropper’s house in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas. The money will also be used to put up a bronze bust of Helm. Amsden says she doesn’t think of Helm as a big celebrity, but he needs to be immortalized because people loved playing with him. Earlier this year, Arkansas legislators designated part of U-S 49 as Levon Helm Memorial Highway.
The band Yes will have another two-drummer approach to concerts this year and they looked no further than the son of guitarist Steve Howe to fit the bill. Dylan Howe will play drums along Alan White on the Yestival tour that begins August 4th in Greensboro, North Carolina. White says it’s a pleasure to welcome Dylan Howe to the stage to play with him. Dylan Howe says White’s drumming is part of the reason why he started playing drums in the first place. White and former Yes drummer Bill Bruford both played drums on the Yes “Union” tour of the early 1990s.
Cindy Wilson of The B-52’s is finally singing alone. Wilson will put out her first solo album, called “Change,” in November. Click below for more.
Police in Los Angeles say Justin Bieber has accidentally struck a photographer with his pickup truck. Video posted to social media shows the Canadian pop star getting into his truck Wednesday night in Beverly Hills, surrounded by a crowd of paparazzi. As he pulls away, one of the photographers steps toward the truck and is hit. Another clip shows Bieber kneeling beside the man, who was sent to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Check out the video from CNN HERE.
