June () is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of the four months with a length of 30 days. Ovid provides two etymologies for June's name in his poem concerning the months entitled the ''Fasti''. The first is that the month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter and equivalent to the Greek goddess Hera, whilst the second is that the name comes from the Latin word ''iuniores'', meaning "younger ones," as opposed to ''maiores'' ("elders") for which the preceding month May is named (''Fasti'' VI.1–88). See: Months in various calendars also called the season of the unicorn.

At the start of June, the sun rises in the constellation of Taurus; at the end of June, the sun rises in the constellation of Gemini. However, due to the precession of the equinoxes, June begins with the sun in the astrological sign of Gemini, and ends with the sun in the astrological sign of Cancer.

June is the month with the longest daylight hours of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the shortest daylight hours of the year in the Southern Hemisphere.

June in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to December in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa.

In the Northern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological summer is 1 June. In the Southern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological winter is 1 June.

June is known for the large number of marriages that occur over the course of the month. According to one etymology, June is named after Juno (Hera). Juno was the goddess of marriage and a married couple's household, so some consider it good luck to be married in this month.

In Iceland, folklore says that if you bathe naked in the morning dew on the morning of June 24, you are supposed to keep aging at bay for longer.

In both common and leap years, no other month begins on the same day of the week as June. This month and May are the only two months that have this property. June ends on the same day of the week as March every year.

Events in June

Festa della Repubblica Italian Republic Day is celebrated in Italy on the second of June each year. The day commemorates the institutional referendum held by universal suffrage in 1946.

Adur festival The first two weeks of June every year.

Madaraka Day June 1 to commemorate when Kenya gained internal self-rule.

Flag Days of Sweden (June 6), United States (June 14—see Flag Day in the United States), Denmark (June 15), Argentina (June 20), and Romania (June 26).

D-Day landings by Allied forces in Normandy, June 6, 1944.

Primož Trubar Day, on 8 June, a public holiday in Slovenia in commemoration of the birth of the founder of the Slovene literary language, who was according to some sources born on 8 June 1508

Kamehameha Day, on June 11, is a state holiday in Hawaii, US, honoring the first ruler of the one-time kingdom.

Philippine Independence Day is on June 12.

Feast of St. Anthony of Padua June 13

United Kingdom – Trooping the Colour (Military celebration of the monarch's official birthday held in London on the second Saturday of June)

Bloomsday in Ireland, and worldwide among fans of James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' June 16

Youth Day in South Africa June 16

The Comrades in South Africa June 16.

Juneteenth, (aka Freedom Day or Emancipation Day) primarily in Texas June 19,

"Martyrs Day" in Eritrea June 20

West Virginia Day in the U.S. state of West Virginia June 20.

The solstice called the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere occurs on dates varying from 22 June to 23 June (in UTC). In the pagan wheel of the year the summer solstice is the time of Litha and the winter solstice is that of Yule.

Feast of the Birth of St. John the Baptist (Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec) June 24.

Statehood Day (Slovenia) in Slovenia June 25

Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, principal patrons of the Roman Catholic Church, June 29

Mother's Day (in Luxembourg on the second Sunday in June)

Father's Day (in Belgium on the second Sunday in June)(in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Venezuela, the Netherlands, Ireland and Canada on the third Sunday in June)

Midsummer is celebrated in Finland and Sweden on the third Friday in June.

Gay pride celebrations take place in many countries in honour of the Stonewall riots.

The majority of the Portland Rose Festival occurs.

The first Monday in June is one of the public holidays in the Republic of Ireland; in the Irish Calendar the month is called Meitheamh and is the middle month of the summer season. Secondary schools are off during the month (and also July and August), while June is the last month in primary schools.

The second Sunday in June is Canadian Rivers Day.

Children's Day celebrated in many eastern European countries including Portugal, Poland, Slovakia, Romania as well as China and other countries throughout the world.

Almost all of interleague play in baseball occurs in this month, with 15 of the 18 interleague games occurring this month. The other three are played on the third weekend in May (Fri-Sun).

Caribbean-American Heritage Month (United States)

Bike month in the Lower mainland in British Columbia, Canada

Independence day (June 17) in Iceland

Fishermansday (first Sunday in June) celebrating the work of fishermen and those lost at sea. (Iceland)

June is Black Music Month

In the United States June is officially LGBT Pride Month.

June symbols

June's birthstones are the pearl, the Moonstone (gemstone), and the Alexandrite. The meaning is health and longevity.

Its birth flowers are the honeysuckle and the rose.

The horoscope for June is Gemini (astrology) or Cancer (astrology).

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Coordinates	31°30′11″N34°27′50″N
name	June Carter Cash
background	solo_singer
birth name	Valerie June Carter
birth date	June 23, 1929
died	May 15, 2003Nashville, Tennessee, USA
origin	Hiltons, Virginia, USA
instrument	Vocals, guitar, banjo, harmonica, autoharp
genre	Country
occupation	Singer-songwriter, actress, dancer, comedienne
years active	1939–2003
spouse	Johnny Cash
associated acts	Carter Family, Johnny Cash
website	}}

Valerie June Carter Cash (born Valerie June Carter on June 23, 1929 – May 15, 2003) was an American singer, dancer, songwriter, actress, comedienne and author who was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. She played the guitar, banjo, harmonica, and autoharp and acted in several films and television shows.

Biography

Early life

June Carter Cash was born Valerie June Carter in Maces Spring, Virginia to Maybelle Carter and Ezra Carter. She was born into country music and performed with the Carter Family from the early age of ten, beginning in 1939. In March 1943, when the Carter Family trio stopped recording together after the WBT contract, Maybelle Carter, with encouragement from her husband Ezra, formed "Mother Maybelle & the Carter Sisters" with her daughters, Helen, Anita, and June. The new group first aired on radio station WRNL in Richmond, Virginia, on June 1. Doc (Addington) and Carl (McConnell)—Maybelle's brother and cousin, respectively— known as "The Virginia Boys," joined them in late 1945. June, then 16, was a co-announcer with Ken Allyn and did the commercials on the radio shows for "Red Star Flour", "Martha White," and "Thalhimers Department Store", just to name a few. For the next year, the Carters and Doc and Carl did show dates within driving range of Richmond, through Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. June later said she had to work harder at her music than her sisters, but she had her own special talent—comedy. A highlight of the road shows was her "Aunt Polly" comedy routine. Carl McConnell wrote in his memoirs that June was "a natural born clown, if there ever was one." She attended John Marshall High School during this period.

After Doc and Carl dropped out of the music business in late 1946, Maybelle and the sisters moved to Sunshine Sue Worklman's "Old Dominion Barn Dance" on the WRVA Richmond station. After a while there, they moved to WNOX in Knoxville, TN, where they met Chet Atkins with Homer and Jethro.

In 1949, Maybelle & The Carter Sisters, along with their lead guitarist, a young Chet Atkins, were living in Springfield, Missouri, and performing regularly at KWTO. Ezra "Eck" Carter, Maybelle's husband and manager of the group, declined numerous offers from the Grand Ole Opry to move the act to Nashville, Tennessee, because the Opry would not permit Atkins to accompany the group onstage. Atkins' reputation as a guitar player had begun to spread, and studio musicians were fearful that he would displace them as a 'first-call' player if he came to Nashville. Finally, in 1950, Opry management relented and the group, along with Atkins, became part of the Opry company. Here the family befriended Hank Williams and Elvis Presley (to whom they were distantly related), and June met Johnny Cash.

June and her sisters, with mother Maybelle and aunt Sara joining in from time to time, reclaimed the name ''The Carter Family'' for their act during the 1960s and 1970s.

With her thin and lanky frame, June Carter often played a comedic foil during the group's performances alongside other Opry stars Faron Young and Webb Pierce.

Career highlights

While June Carter Cash may be best known for singing and songwriting, she was also an author, dancer, actress, comedienne, philanthropist and humanitarian. Director Elia Kazan saw her perform at the Grand Ole Opry in 1955 and encouraged her to study acting. She studied with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. Her acting roles included Mrs. "Momma" Dewey in Robert Duvall's 1998 movie ''The Apostle'', Sister Ruth, wife to Johnny Cash's character Kid Cole, on ''Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman'' (1993–1997), and Clarise on ''Gunsmoke'' in 1957. June was also "Momma James" in ''The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James.''

As a singer, she had both a solo career and a career singing with first her family and later her husband. As a solo artist, she became somewhat successful with upbeat country tunes of the 1950s like "Jukebox Blues" and, with her exaggerated breaths, the comedic hit "No Swallerin' Place" by Frank Loesser. June also recorded "The Heel" in the 1960s along with many other songs. She won a Grammy award in 1999 for her solo album, ''Press On''. Her last album, ''Wildwood Flower'', was released posthumously in 2003 and won two additional Grammys. It contains bonus video enhancements showing extracts from the film of the recording sessions, which took place at the Carter Family estate in Hiltons, Virginia, on September 18–20, 2002. The songs on the album include "Big Yellow Peaches," "Sinking in the Lonesome Sea," "Temptation" and the trademark staple "Wildwood Flower".

Her autobiography was published in 1979, and she wrote a memoir, ''From the Heart'', almost 10 years later.

Personal life

Carter was married three times and had one child with each husband. All three of her children would go on to have successful careers in country music.

She was married first to honky-tonk singer Carl Smith from July 9, 1952, until their divorce in 1956. Together they wrote "Time's A-Wastin'". They had a daughter, Rebecca Carlene Smith, aka Carlene Carter, a country musician.

June's second marriage was to Edwin "Rip" Nix, a former football player, police officer, and race car driver, on November 11, 1957. They had a daughter, Rosanna Lea aka Rosie, on July 13, 1958. The couple divorced in 1966. Rosie Nix Adams was a country/rock singer. On October 24, 2003, Rosie died on a bus from possible carbon monoxide poisoning.

Carter and the entire Carter Family had performed with Johnny Cash for a number of years. In 1968, Cash proposed to Carter during a live performance at London Arena in London, Ontario, and they married on March 1, 1968. They remained married until her death in May, 2003, just four months before Cash died. Carter and Cash had one son, John Carter Cash, who was a musician, songwriter and producer.

In 1970, Carter's distant cousin, future US President Jimmy Carter, became closely acquainted with Cash and Carter and maintained their friendship throughout their lifetime. In a June 1977 speech, Jimmy Carter acknowledged that June Carter was his distant cousin, with whom they shared a common patrilineal ancestor.

Carter was a longtime supporter of SOS Children's Villages. In 1974 the Cashes donated money to help build a village near their home in Barrett Town, Jamaica, which they visited frequently, playing the guitar and singing songs to the children in the village.

Death

June Carter Cash died in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 15, 2003, of complications following heart valve replacement surgery, in the company of her family and her husband of 35 years, Johnny Cash who died less than four months later on September 12, 2003. At Carter's funeral, her stepdaughter, Rosanne Cash, stated that "if being a wife were a corporation, June would have been a CEO. It was her most treasured role." June and Johnny Cash are buried in Hendersonville Memory Gardens near their home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

Awards

Carter and her future husband, Johnny Cash reached #2 on the US Country charts with their 1967 duet of "Jackson". Their performance won the 1968 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Performance Duet, Trio or Group.

The two - now married - won the 1971 Grammy Award, for Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group, for their 1970 duet "If I Were a Carpenter".

Carter Cash won the 2000 Grammy Award, for Best Traditional Folk Album, for her 1999 album ''Press On''.

Carter Cash's last album, ''Wildwood Flower'', was released posthumously in 2003. Carter Cash won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album, and she also won the while the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for the single "Keep on the Sunny Side".

Carter Cash ranked #31 in ''CMT's 40 Greatest Women in Country Music'' in 2002.

Carter Cash was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2009.

Film portrayal

June Carter was played by Reese Witherspoon in ''Walk the Line'', a 2005 biopic of Johnny Cash (played by Joaquin Phoenix). The film largely focuses on the development of their relationship over the course of 13 years, from their first meeting to her finally accepting his proposal for marriage. Witherspoon's portrayal led her to receive many awards for her role, including an Academy Award for Best Actress and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Witherspoon also performed all vocals for the role, singing many of June's famous songs, including "Juke Box Blues" and "Jackson" with Phoenix.

Discography

Albums

Year	Album	Chart Positions
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1975	''Appalachian Pride''
	''Press On''
''It's All in the Family''
	''Keep on the Sunny Side: June Carter Cash - Her Life in Music''
''Church in the Wildwood: A Treasury of Appalachian Gospel''
''Ring of Fire: The Best of June Carter Cash''
2006	''Early June''

Albums with Johnny Cash

Year	Album	Chart Positions
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1967	''Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter''
1973	''Johnny Cash and His Woman''
1978	''Johnny & June''
''June Carter and Johnny Cash: Duets''

Selected Singles

Year	Single	Chart Positions	Album
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1949	"Baby, It's Cold Outside" (w/ Homer and Jethro)
1956	"Juke Box Blues"
1971	"A Good Man"
2003	"Keep On the Sunny Side"			''Wildwood Flower''

NOTE: June Carter released at least 19 additional non-charting solo singles between 1950 and 1975.

Singles with Johnny Cash

Year	Single	Chart Positions	Album
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1965	"It Ain't Me Babe"
"Long Legged Guitar Pickin' Man"						''Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter''
1970							''Hello, I'm Johnny Cash''
1971	"No Need to Worry"						''International Superstar''
1972	"If I Had a Hammer"
	"The Loving Gift"
"Allegheny"						''Johnny Cash and His Woman''
1976	"Old Time Feeling"

See also

''Walk the Line''

Notes

References

Carter, Jimmy, ''Public papers of the presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977, Government Printing Office, 1978

Cash, June Carter. ''Among My Klediments''. Grand Rapids, MI, Zondervan, 1979. ISBN 0-310-38170-3.

Dawidoff, Nicholas. ''In the Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music''. Vintage Books, 1998. ISBN 0-375-70082-X.

McConnell, Carl P. ''A Brief History of My Family and an Autobiographical Sketch of My Musical Life''. January 24, 1976. Background for liner notes for a ''Doc and Carl'' album recorded at Johnny Cash's Nashville studio. Online at

Zwonitzer, Mark, with Charles Hirschberg. ''Will you miss me when I'm gone? : the Carter Family and their legacy in American music''. New York Simon & Schuster, 2002.

External links

Keep on the Sunnyside: June Carter Cash Remembered

June Carter Cash Forum

at Yahoo! Music

A.P. Carter Museum

Friends of the Carter Family Fold

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(10 December 1970 - 27 July 2011) was a Kyoto-based electronic musician from Hiroshima, Japan. He composed and mixed on two Roland SC-88Pro sound generators, at times supplemented by the Roland SK-88Pro keyboard model. He suffered a fatal brain hemorrhage on the 27th July 2011.

Rei released his debut album in 1998 on Sublime Records. Follow-up albums, ''opa*q'' in 1999 and ''red curb'' in 2001 showcased his skills as an artist and producer. Rei's growing reputation resulted in his becoming in demand as a producer and collaborator for artists such as UA, Great 3 and Coldcut. His recent collaboration as an artist and producer was on Akiko Yano's 2004 album, ''Honto no Kimochi'' ("True feelings"), and resulted in widespread recognition in Japan.

Rei regularly performed at some of Japan's big festivals such as Fuji Rock Festival, Rising Sun Rock Festival, and Sonar Sound Tokyo. Rei had also actively participated in several music showcases in France and Germany and in Sonar 2005 in Barcelona, Spain where he appeared with Shiro Takatani (from performance unit, "Dumb Type", as a visual collaboration).

His fourth album in 2005, ''lust'', quickly gained popularity in a variety of music scenes. In 2006, Harakami released new and past works on the compilation album ''Wasuremono'' ("Forgotten Items") and a project CD ''Colors of the Dark'' for the Planetarium. In 2007, he composed the music for the film ''Tennen Kokekko'' ("A Gentle Breeze in the Village") based on Fusako Kuramichi's novel of the same name, centered around a group of teenagers in rural Japan. Harakami also started a project with Akiko Yano, called ''yanokami'', which debuted in 2007.

Discography

''Unrest'' (1998) Sublime Records

''Opa*q'' (1999)

''Red Curb'' (2001)

''lust'' (2005)

''Wasuremono'' (2006)

''Color of the Dark'' (2006)

''Tennen Kokekko,'' original soundtrack (2007)

External links

Rei Harakami official site

Rei Harakami on myspace.com

Rei Harakami site

References

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Coordinates	31°30′11″N34°27′50″N
Name	The Black Seeds
Background	group_or_band
Origin	Wellington, New Zealand
Genre	Rock, reggae, ska
Years active	1998–present
Associated acts	Fly My PrettiesFlash HarryFlight of the ConchordsVideo KidHollie SmithFat Freddy's Drop
Website	Official Site
Current members	Barnaby WeirMike FabulousDaniel WeetmanLee PrebbleJarney MurphyTim JarrayAndrew ChristiansenJabin WardNigel Patterson
Past members	Bret McKenzieRich ChristieShannon Williams }}

The Black Seeds are a musical group from Wellington, New Zealand. Their music is a fusion of dub, funk, afrobeat and soul.

The Black Seeds have two double-platinum selling albums at home, and successful European album releases through the German-based ''Sonar Kollektiv'' label. The Black Seeds perform with eight members, with instruments including vocals, guitar, saxophone, trumpet, bass, drums, bongos, keyboard and wood block.

Lead singer Barnaby Weir is also associated with the sideprojects ''Flash Harry'' and Fly My Pretties. Former band member Bret McKenzie is also a member of international award-winning comedy duo ''Flight of the Conchords'', as well as playing Figwit the elf in Peter Jackson's ''The Lord of the Rings''. Their song "One by One" was used in AMC's Breaking Bad Season 2 Episode 9, "4 Days Out".

The Black Seeds have released seven albums: ''Keep On Pushing L.P'' (2001) and ''On The Sun'' (2003), ''Into the Dojo'' (2006) and ''Solid Ground'' (2008), a live album and remix albums ''Pushed'' (2003) and ''Specials'' (2010).

Discography

''Keep On Pushing LP'' (2001)

''On the Sun'' (2004)

''Into the Dojo'' (2006)

''Solid Ground'' (2008)

''The Black Seed Lives - Vol 1'' (2009)

''Specials: remixes and versions off Solid Grind'' (2010)

External links

The Black Seeds official site

Amplifier.co.nz - The Black Seeds

Sonar Kollektiv

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