MUSIC
Buddy Guy & Jonny Lang
Mainstage Theatre
Tuesday, June 12
7:30pm
$64, $54, $39, $27
Buddy Guy returns by overwhelming demand after his incendiary performance at the Center for the Arts last April! At age 75, he’s a Rock and 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 that city’s halcyon days of electric blues. He has received five Grammy Awards, 28 Blues Music Awards (formerly W.C. Handy Awards), the Billboard magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts.
Rolling Stone ranked him in the top 30 of its “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”
Don’t let 32-year-old
Jonny Lang fool you – his appearance often belies the grizzled, blues-veteran voice that he is famous for. The Grammy-winning former child prodigy instrumentalist topped the
Billboard New Artist chart with his first album at age 15 and was called “one of the most important artists to watch in the new millennium” by
Time Magazine. Today, Lang has eight critically acclaimed albums under his belt, including the Grammy Award-winning
Turn Around and his newest offering,
Jonny Lang Live at the Ryman.
Lyle Lovett & His Band
Mainstage Theatre
Sunday, August 5
7:30P
$67,$57,$47,$37
For nearly three decades, Lyle Lovett has defined the modern Texas singer-songwriter. Fusing elements of the blues, country, folk, gospel and jazz, four-time Grammy winner Lovett—in a career that spans 15 albums and more than four million records sold—has created his own style of Americana, defying convention and breaking down barriers along the way.
He is touring in support of his latest recording “Release Me” (Curb/Lost Highway).
Tickets on Sale Friday, May 4 at 10:00A!!
Bruce Hornsby - Solo
Mainstage Theatre
Wednesday, September 26
7:30PM
$40, $32
Twenty-five years after winning a Best New Artist Grammy and launching one of contemporary music’s most diverse and collaborative careers, Bruce Hornsby is still, blissfully, making joyful noise.
Tapping into many of the genres that have influenced Hornsby’s artistic output over the years—pop, jazz, bluegrass, country and modern classical music – Hornsby’s solo performances are spontaneous events featuring music from throughout his career, new pieces, choice covers, and audience requests.
For all his talents as a singer, bandleader and pianist with an instantly identifiable sound, Hornsby is a songwriter at heart who is committed to portraying his songs in new ways that allow them to evolve and expand. This approach was further developed by his time with The Grateful Dead, playing over one-hundred shows with the band between 1990 and 1995. Hornsby found in the Dead’s vibrant tradition of loosely blending folk, blues and improvisation a kindred spirit.
He has played on over 100 records over the years, including albums by Bob Dylan, Don Henley, the Grateful Dead, Bob Seger, Crosby Stills and Nash, Stevie Nicks, Cowboy Junkies, Squeeze, Bonnie Raitt (piano on the classic “I Can’t Make You Love Me”), Shawn Colvin, Bela Fleck, Clint Black, Ricky Skaggs, Willie Nelson and more.