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Buddy Guy: Damn Right Farewell
August 12, 2023 @ 7:30 pm
TICKETS: Reserved $89 | Lawn $59 | Child (1-12) Lawn $49 | Premium Blanket (for 4) $516 | Premium Blanket (for 2) $258
GATES OPEN: @ 5:45 Early Entry | 6:00 General Public
ALCOHOL: A selection of beer and wine will be available for purchase. Customers will not be permitted to bring in outside alcohol for this performance.
FOOD: Food is available for purchase from West Coast Events and The Melt and Peruvian Point food trucks. For more information and venues, click here.
At age 86, Buddy Guy is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago’s fabled West Side sound, and a living link to the city’s halcyon days of electric blues. Buddy Guy has received 8 GRAMMY Awards, a 2015 Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award, 38 Blues Music Awards (the most any artist has received), the Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, a Kennedy Center Honor, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #23 in its “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”
In 2019, Buddy Guy won his 8th and most recent GRAMMY Award for his 18th solo LP, “The Blues Is Alive And Well”.
In July of 2021, in honor of Buddy Guy’s 85th birthday, PBS American Masters released “Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase The Blues Away”, a new documentary following his rise from a childhood spent picking cotton in Louisiana to becoming one of the most influential guitar players of all time. The documentary features new interviews with Buddy Guy, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, John Mayer, Gary Clark Jr, and more. Watch the full documentary at PBS Online here. Read More
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Opening Artist: Tom Hambridge
Tom Hambridge is a Four-time Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, producer & drummer.
Tom’s production work includes duets or solo projects with: Eric Clapton, BB King, James Bay, Buddy Guy, Gregg Allman, Keith Richards, Keb Mo, Mick Jagger, Susan Tedeschi, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Steven Tyler & Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Van Morrison, Joss Stone, Kid Rock, Billy Gibbons, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, George Thorogood, Gary Clark Jr., Allen Toussaint, Delbert McClinton, Johnny Winter, James Cotton and many others.
Tom has had over 500 of his songs recorded by such diverse artists as BB King, ZZ Top, Van Morrison, Joe Bonamassa, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, George Thorogood, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban, Chris Young, Meatloaf, Billy Ray Cyrus, and many others. His songs have been included in many major motion pictures, TV movies and shows from American Idol, Criminal Minds to The Super Bowl.
Tom has produced 9 Grammy nominated albums , won three Grammy’s, won countless Handy and Blues Awards, 8 Boston Music Awards, ASCAP Country Music Awards, He is a recipient of the prestigious KBA Award in Memphis (Keeping the Blues Alive) and has been inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall Of Fame.
As a drummer Tom has played on albums and/or toured with: Eric Clapton, Keith Urban, Mick Jagger, James Bay, Boston, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Steven Tyler, Van Morrison, Keith Richards, Jeff Beck, Joss Stone, Carlos Santana, Kid Rock, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Roy Buchanan, Gregg Allman, Warren Haynes, Keb Mo, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, George Thorogood, Gary Clark Jr., Allen Toussaint, Hank Williams Jr., Delbert McClinton, Johnny Winter, James Cotton and many others.
Tom is currently playing drums on tour with Buddy Guy.
Pre-concert music: The Brisbane Project
Begins at 6:00 PM on the Enfield Stage in the Britt Performance Garden
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