March 31

On this day:

• 1975 - Harry and the band perform in Chicago in the first concert that featured the lineup assembled for Harry's Broadway play The Night That Made America Famous. This was the first concert performance with Howard Fields and Doug Walker.
• 2011 - Phil Kaufmann launches his series of over 30 Cotton Patch Gospel performances at Willow Springs Mennonite Church in his hometown of Tiskilwa, Illinois. The performance is a unique one-man show with other characters provided via a multimedia backdrop. This event is part of his larger Cotton Patch Gospel Food Project series of benefit performance for WhyHunger and other local food charities.