The only musical surname links my surfing turned up was someone who co-wrote some novelty jazz tunes pre-war in the US. Also Van Morrison crops up as he mentions the Irish village that shares my surname in one of his songs.
There is also a well-known UK artist (contemporary)who draws rather strange things.
I've mentioned the Dissenting tracts, another wrote on the gold standard and helped to found Aslib (the association for special libraries)so there might be e genetic link there! Others wrote obscure tomes to do with the silk industry, unsurprising as the eponymous village in Cheshire is where my direct ancestors (great grandfather) moved to Birmingham from.
Those 'Catters who don't know my surname have a lot of clues there!
RtS